4/3/2024 0 Comments 8 dsm 5 criteria for PTSD![]() Swiss and German military physicians in the 17th Century identified two illnesses that caused combat soldiers to experience melancholy, weakness, anxiety, insomnia, palpitations and incessant thoughts of home, and termed them Sehnsucht (nostalgia) and Heimweh (homesickness). Physical breakdown and mental illness during and after war was recognized by the ancient Egyptians, and Herodotus described incapacitation by the events of war in the 5th Century BCE. The category also includes short-lived reactions to traumatic events (acute stress disorder) and adjustment disorder, a stress-response syndrome that has some features of PTSD along with elements of depression and anxiety (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). The new classification is centered upon the iconic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but also includes a subtype for young children (preschool type) and one in which experiential detachment or unreality are prominent (dissociative type). Although historically related to war, these conditions may be triggered by a variety of intensely traumatic events, and have in common persistent re-experiencing, avoidance, emotional numbing and a state of arousal after exposure to a dangerous or horrifying situation. The category of “Trauma and Stressor-related Disorders” is a new rubric for the variously-named forms of post-traumatic stress disorder, shell shock, combat neurosis and the like. DSM-5 Category: Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders Introduction
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