PAD syndrome
PAD syndrome
Phobic-anxiety-depersonalization syndrome Psychiatry A debilitating phobic state–75% of Pts are ♀, which begins with a stressor, causing sudden intense anxiety or emotional shock, followed by depersonalization of varying duration, then by generalized and pervasive anxiety Clinical Pt can't work, socialize, and is under constant stress. See Phobia; Cf Agoraphobia, Monophobia.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.