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PTSD

[pee-tee-es-dee]

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post-traumatic stress disorder: a mental disorder occurring after an extremely distressing, stressful, or frightening event and characterized by symptoms such as reliving the event, avoidance of anything that is a reminder of the event, withdrawal from social interactions or previous activities, and an increase in feelings of anxiety, anger, sadness, shame, or guilt.

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Since the heist, the Algerian former PhD student has experienced PTSD, quit his studies and left France.

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With “Hereditary,” Aster made horror trauma hip; now, he’s shifted to satirizing our shared PTSD.

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Ouatiki told French media he lost his student status shortly after the heist and had to go back to Algeria, where he was diagnosed with PTSD.

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He told the court he had twice tried to commit suicide and had been diagnosed with complex PTSD.

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This is, as Todd adroitly points out, a story of PTSD.

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