Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is characterized by symptoms that include intense fear, helplessness, and/or horror that a person experiences following an exposure to a traumatic event. The traumatic event can include an actual or threatened death or a threat to oneâs or another personâs physical integrity.
Judicious means âusing good judgement, careful and sensibleâ, as in the judicious use of public investment or the judicious use of pesticides; it should not be confused with judicial, which means ârelating to the administration of justiceâ, as in the judicial system
The observations of the judicious Blackstone,[1] in reference to the latter, are well worthy of recital: To bereave a man of life, [says he] or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole nation; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and ...