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Loved ones lost to
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Diagnostic
Criteria of PTSD |
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The person has been
exposed to a traumatic event in which both of the
following were present:
* the person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted
with an event or
events that involved actual or threatened death or
serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of
self or others
* the person's response involved intense fear,
helplessness, or horror. |
The traumatic event is
persistently reexperienced in one (or more) of the
following ways:
* recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of
the event, including
images, thoughts, or perceptions.
* recurrent distressing dreams of the event.
* acting or feeling as if the traumatic event were
recurring (includes a
sense of reliving the experience, illusions,
hallucinations, and associative
flashback episodes, including those that occur on
awakening or when intoxicated).
* intense psychological distress at exposure to internal
or external cues
that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic
event
* physiological reactivity on exposure to internal or
external cues that
symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event |
Persistent avoidance of
stimuli associated with the trauma and numbing of
general responsiveness (not present before the trauma),
as indicated by three (or more) of the following:
* efforts to avoid thoughts, feelings, or conversations
associated with the
trauma
* efforts to avoid activities, places, or people that
arouse recollections of
the trauma
* inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma
* markedly diminished interest or participation in
significant activities
* feeling of detachment or estrangement from others
* restricted range of affect (e.g., unable to have
loving feelings)
* sense of a foreshortened future (e.g., does not expect
to have a career,
marriage, children, or a normal life span) |
Persistent symptoms of
increased arousal (not present before the trauma), as
indicated by two (or more) of the following:
* difficulty falling or staying asleep
* irritability or outbursts of anger
* difficulty concentrating
* hypervigilance
* exaggerated startle response |
Duration of the
disturbance (symptoms in Criteria B, C, and D) is more
than 1
month.
The disturbance causes clinically significant distress
or impairment in
social, occupational, or other important areas of
functioning.
Specify if:
Acute: if duration of symptoms is less than 3 months
Chronic: if duration of symptoms is 3 months or more
Outside the box PTSD symptoms:
Are you running into difficulties within your unit? Like
Articles 15’s, poor
performance reviews, difficulty with authority? No
longer wishing to go to
church, if you went before. |
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Read More: |
PTSD and the Family
PTSD and Children
Treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Understanding The Biology
of PTSD |
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