What is PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder)?
Dr. Chuck
PTSD) is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to
any event which results in psychological trauma. This event may involve
the threat of death to oneself or to someone else, or to one's own or
someone else's physical, sexual, or psychological integrity,
overwhelming the individual's psychological defenses.
PTSD is a less frequent and more enduring consequence of psychological
trauma than the more frequently seen acute stress response. PTSD has
also been recognized in the past as railway spine, stress syndrome,
shell shock, battle fatigue, traumatic war neurosis, or post-traumatic
stress syndrome.
Diagnostic symptoms include re-experiencing original trauma(s), by means
of flashbacks or nightmares; avoidance of stimuli associated with the
trauma; and increased arousal, such as difficulty falling or staying
asleep, anger, and hypervigilance. Formal diagnostic criteria (both
DSM-IV and ICD-9) require that the symptoms last more than one month and
cause significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important
areas of functioning (e.g. problems with work and/or relationships).
Colonel Edmund J. Burke
Dr. Chuck
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