DELAYED STRESS SYNDROME Definition & Meaning

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delayed stress syndrome

[ dih-leyd stres sin-drohm, -druhm ]

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noun

Psychiatry.

(no longer in technical use) a post-traumatic stress disorder occurring more than six months after the experience of a traumatic event.

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Third, the VA has been slow to acknowledge the existence of "delayed stress syndrome," mental illnesses that arise years after their cause has ceased�in this case the war.

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delayed stress syndrome

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