Defined as:
Exposure to a potentially traumatic event causes recurring worry or fear/ other symptoms.
Real traumatic event leads to real symptoms in response
Diagnosis:
exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury or sexual violence by
- direct experience
- witnessed in person
- learning the event occured to close family/friend
B. prescence of intrusive symptoms associated with the traumatic event
eg flashbacks, reliving, dreams, distressing memories can get really angry
persistant avoidance of internal or external cues which relate to the stimuli
negative alterations about cognition and mood
physiological arousal is high, almost just higher baseline reactivity at all times
significant distress or impairment
not attributal to anything else (A cute stress disorder)
Other factors:
negative alteration in cognition or mood
angry to the point of being unreasonable
“the world is no longer safe”
soldiers personas in war zoens emergency medical technicians police firefighters at risk
Symptoms are:
Physiological:
Cognitive:
Affective:
Behavioural:
Prevalence: (community), (clinical)
8%