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
A contiguity is a continuous mass, or a series of things in contact or in proximity, or the state of being such a mass or series. The concept was first set out in the Law of Contiguity (one of Aristotle 's Laws of Association) which states that things that occur near each other in time or space are readily associated.