anxiety felt by someone who is nearing release from an institutional facility and re-emergence into the tangible daily world.
PRERELEASE ANXIETY STATE: "The patient's prerelease anxiety state is normal in someone who has been institutionalized for this long."
Cite this page: N., Sam M.S., "PRERELEASE ANXIETY STATE," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 7, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/prerelease-anxiety-state/ (accessed December 1, 2022).
