delayed stress reaction

delayed stress reaction

noun Psychiatry.
a post-traumatic stress disorder occurring more than six months after the experience of a traumatic event.
Also, de·layed-stress reac·tion.
Also called delayed stress syndrome, de·layed-stress syn·drome.
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