Editing Post-traumatic stress disorder (section)

== Terminology ==
{{Redirect-distinguish|PTSS|Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome}}
The ''[[Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders]]'' does not hyphenate "post" and "traumatic", thus, the [[DSM-5]] lists the disorder as ''posttraumatic stress disorder''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=DSM-5 |url=http://repository.poltekkes-kaltim.ac.id/657/1/Diagnostic%20and%20statistical%20manual%20of%20mental%20disorders%20_%20DSM-5%20(%20PDFDrive.com%20).pdf|access-date=10 January 2022|via=Archive.Today}}</ref> However, many scientific journal articles and other scholarly publications do hyphenate the name of the disorder, ''viz.'', "post-traumatic stress disorder".<ref>{{cite web |title=Search results: 'post-traumatic stress disorder' in the title of a journal article |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=post-traumatic%20stress%20disorder%5BTitle%5D |publisher=U.S. National Library of Medicine |access-date=21 January 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160514050330/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=post-traumatic%20stress%20disorder%5BTitle%5D |archive-date=14 May 2016}}</ref> Dictionaries also differ with regard to the preferred spelling of the disorder with the ''Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged'' using the hyphenated spelling, and the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition'' and the ''Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary'' giving the non-hyphenated spelling.<ref>{{cite web |title=PTSD |url=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/PTSD |website=[[TheFreeDictionary.com]] |publisher=Farlex, Inc. |access-date=21 January 2015}}</ref>

Some authors have used the terms "'''post-traumatic stress syndrome'''" or "'''post-traumatic stress symptoms'''" ("'''PTSS'''"),<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Righy C, Rosa RG, da Silva RT, Kochhann R, Migliavaca CB, Robinson CC, Teche SP, Teixeira C, Bozza FA, Falavigna M | title = Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in adult critical care survivors: a systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = Critical Care | volume = 23 | issue = 1 | pages = 213 | date = June 2019 | pmid = 31186070 | pmc = 6560853 | doi = 10.1186/s13054-019-2489-3 | doi-access = free }}</ref> or simply "'''post-traumatic stress'''" ("'''PTS'''") in the case of the [[U.S. Department of Defense]],<ref>{{cite news |vauthors=Thompson M |title=The Disappearing 'Disorder': Why PTSD is becoming PTS |url=https://nation.time.com/2011/06/05/the-disappearing-disorder-why-ptsd-is-becoming-pts/ |access-date=3 October 2018 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=2011 |url-access=limited}}</ref> to avoid stigma associated with the word "disorder".

The comedian [[George Carlin]] criticized the [[euphemism treadmill]] which led to progressive change of the way PTSD was referred to over the course of the 20th century, from "[[shell shock]]" in the [[World War I|First World War]] to the "battle fatigue" in the [[World War II|Second World War]], to "operational exhaustion" in the [[Korean War]], to the current "post-traumatic stress disorder", coined during the [[Vietnam War]], which "added a hyphen" and which, he commented, "completely burie[s] [the pain] under [[jargon]]". He also stated that the name given to the condition has had a direct effect on the way veteran soldiers with PTSD were treated and perceived by civilian populations over time.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/george-carlin-euphemism-fighter-supreme |title=George Carlin: Euphemism Fighter Supreme |vauthors=Peters M |date=19 May 2017 |website=McSweeny's |access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref>