How to Use post-traumatic stress disorder in a Sentence

post-traumatic stress disorder

noun
  • They were treated for post-traumatic stress disorder for over two years.
    — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Many of those who survived came home with post-traumatic stress disorder.
    — Susan King, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2020
  • The emotions, the post-traumatic stress disorder, and all of that.
    — Maria Panaritis, Philly.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • But what about all of the soldiers who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder?
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2018
  • Like so many who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, Dale felt numb.
    — NBC News, 10 Sep. 2019
  • One of the elements that appealed to me was that idea of post-traumatic stress disorder.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Her mom used it for her fibromyalgia, and her dad for symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
    — Andy Marso, kansascity, 4 June 2019
  • There is no good evidence for use of benzos in post-traumatic stress disorder.
    — Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Riley was shot in the neck, the suit says, and both girls are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Of those who have survived, many still deal with varying degrees of post-traumatic stress disorder.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Schluterman’s refuge from post-traumatic stress disorder was staying home with her husband and four boys.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 19 June 2021
  • The man, who had been treated for post-traumatic stress disorder at the center, singled out three staffers and took them hostage.
    — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Over half the country is battling post-traumatic stress disorder, with little in the way of mental health care.
    — Fox News, 3 July 2019
  • But that was a lifetime ago, before two shootings seven years apart left him with post-traumatic stress disorder.
    — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Physicians said the shootings triggered a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder.
    — oregonlive, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Moore has had his own struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, brought on by the residual trauama from his time deployed.
    — Victor Ordonez, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2021
  • It was approved by the FDA for post-traumatic stress disorder.
    — Dian Zhang, USA TODAY, 10 June 2020
  • Ames told court officials that he's been diagnosed in the past with post-traumatic stress disorder and schizophrenia.
    — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Gardner served two tours in Iraq and had long suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, his attorneys said.
    — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Thanks to post-traumatic stress disorder, Parsons had a hair-trigger temper and didn’t want to be around people.
    — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Half of them, like McKinnon, lived with the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
    — Erika Hayasaki, Wired, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Duncan posed herself in her bathtub, laying in a soup of milk and lilac paint, to show the daily struggle of living with post-traumatic stress disorder.
    — Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The war stayed with the onetime infantryman in the form of a traumatic brain injury, chronic neck and back pain, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
    — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Teachers who are trained to address the mental health needs of the refugees, who may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, are another.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The film tells the stories of Iraq War veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder.
    — Chris Jordan, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The gymnast Aly Raisman has described her efforts to cope with post-traumatic stress disorder.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2021
  • In the midst of all the glamour, Orlando Suero suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Many of the people who responded to the call that day suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, Harrison claimed.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Some have left the department citing post-traumatic stress disorder from the unrest after Floyd’s death and due to low morale within the ranks.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Helen Khuri’s mother found a specialist to help her when the 19-year-old’s post-traumatic stress disorder flared up last spring.
    — Tom Murphy, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Oct. 2022

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