Posttraumatic Stress Disorder-a snapshot put in layman's terms
For those of you not familiar, there is a book that therapists use to make a diagnosis called The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders that is published by the American Psychiatric Association.
The manual outlines criteria for PTSD in the following general ways.
A. A person has been exposed to a traumatic event that involved threat of death and involved intense fear.
B.The traumatic event is persistently reexperienced by recall, dreams, feelings, distress when exposed to cues that remind the person of the event.
C. Persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma
D.Persistent new increase in arousal including 2 or more of the following-difficulty sleeping, irritability/anger, difficulty concentrating, hyper vigilance, and aggravated startle response.
E. Duration of B,C, D for more than a month
F. The disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment of functioning
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