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Stress Disorders, Traumatic

Medical Definition: Anxiety disorders manifested by the development of characteristic symptoms following a psychologically traumatic event that is outside the normal range of usual human experience. Symptoms include re-experiencing the traumatic event, increased arousal, and numbing of responsiveness to or reduced involvement with the external world. Traumatic stress disorders can be further classified by the time of onset and the duration of these symptoms.
Guide Notes: STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC, ACUTE is also available
Previously Indexed: Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic (1980-2002),Stress, Psychological (1965-2002)
Stress Disorders, Traumatic Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Combat Disorders - Neurotic reactions to unusual, severe, or overwhelming military stress.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - A class of traumatic stress disorders with symptoms that last more than one month. There are various forms of post-traumatic stress disorder, depending on the time of onset and the duration of these stress symptoms. In the acute form, the duration of the symptoms is between 1 to 3 months. In the chronic form, symptoms last more than 3 months. With delayed onset, symptoms develop more than 6 months after the traumatic event.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Stress Disorders, Traumatic, Acute - A class of traumatic stress disorders that is characterized by the significant dissociative states seen immediately after overwhelming trauma. By definition it cannot last longer than 1 month, if it persists, a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC) is more appropriate.

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