HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Dsm-5, Combat Stress Reaction
3 Oct 2016
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Historically, both ocd and ptsd belonged to anxiety disorders, sharing core feature (anxious distress). Ptsd and ocd result from traumatic events or episodes. First shell shock then combat fatigue after wwii - now ptsd. Society gets mental illnesses that it needs: the way mental illness is expressed conforms to demands of given place and time. New to chapter on trauma and stress-related disorders in dsm-5. War experience, victims of violence, industrial accidents, likely candidates. Rare dsm mention of etiology - to be diagnosed, must have been a kind of precipitating event/something must have happened. Doesn"t develop overnight - sometimes months pass. Cannot occur simply due to exposure via tv (ex. after 911, rates for ptsd increase - are they truly traumatized? no, can"t have third party exposure) To be diagnosed, a person (or loved one) must have been exposed to a traumatic event, involving actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violation: ptsd - re-experiencing.
