Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is something that I always heard about happening to people who'd been in combat or who'd been victims of crimes. I never realized that it occurred in adopted children as well, although when you think about it, what some of these children have seen and been through before they've come to a stable family could be considered both combat and a crime.
Here's the definition of PTSD from about.com:
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) occurs as a result of exposure... more