Ayurvedic Management for PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) Abstract PTSD or Post traumatic stress disorder is a psychiatric disease that can occur in human beings who have experienced or witnessed a worrying occasion such as a natural catastrophe, a terrorist act, a serious accident, battle/fight, or rape or who’ve been threatened with death, self harm/suicide, or sexual violence. People with PTSD have excessive, demanding minds and emotions associated with their experience that remain long after the traumatic event has ended.