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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by exposing an individual to a traumatic, stressful event or his exposure as a witness to such an event and beyond his ability to cope with the situation. As a consequence of these events, the subject exhibits extreme fear, nightmares, intrusion of thoughts and images associated with permanent anxiety, with depressive states, and insomnia. We exemplify by presenting the case of a 61-year-old man without a psychiatric background, victim of a road accident in June 2017 as a driver who presented no traumatic injuries and who shows three months after the event a subjective symptomatology with headaches, dizziness, anxiety, memory and concentration disorders requiring forensic expertise. It was concluded that the diagnosis of PTSD was grafted on an affective-emotional background, without posttraumatic organic substrate. This disorder is temporary, it can be treated under specialized treatment and it is not a mental disability

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