Desire and Fate

Desire and Fate

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Jun 02, 2024
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The original medical definition of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was first defined by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980 in the third edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, commonly referred to as DSM-III, as as a catastrophic stressor that was outside the range of usual human experience. The framers of t…

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