Acute Stress Disorder
Resources for Patients and Caregivers
Acute stress disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis that may occur in patients within four weeks of a traumatic event. Features include anxiety, intense fear or helplessness, dissociative symptoms, reexperiencing the event, and avoidance behaviors.
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Diagnosis: Acute Distress Disorder: Wiki-“Distressed Personality Type
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Symptoms: Suppressing emotional feelings of anger and sorrow even when apporpriate;
Progression: By anticipating negative events, they become more tense and inhibited around others.
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Medications: Both for stress and heart may help.
Therapies:
YouTube Video – What Is Acute Stress Disorder?
Amazon or Library Book: Master Stress Management
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Support Group: nami.org; 800-950-6264
(National Alliance on Mental Illness)
Contact your local Social Security office for possible Disability Benefits through their Disability Determination Services, Section 12.05
Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
Clicking each title opens the
PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Application of high-quality targeted temperature management guided by multimodal brain monitoring in brain protection of patients with cardiac arrest: A case seriesby Weiping Xia on December 20, 2024
RATIONALE: Cardiac arrest (CA) is an acute emergency with high mortality and is closely associated with the risk of brain damage or systemic ischemia-reperfusion injury, post-traumatic stress symptoms.
- From supportive care to trauma: training integrative practitioners in the treatment of acute stress disorderby Eran Ben-Arye on December 20, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: ASD-focused training for IM practitioners may increase their level of clinical skills and advance collaboration with mental health providers. Future research examining the feasibility of the integrative model and its implementation in supportive care setting is warranted.
- A longitudinal study to COVID-19 infection among university students: Physical fitness changes and psychological responsesby Yuning Hao on December 19, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: All participants experienced a decline in physical fitness compared to their pre-infection levels, regardless of infection status. Those who had been infected exhibited poorer sleep quality compared to their non-infected peers. Prior COVID-19 infection and higher anxiety levels may contribute to poorer sleep quality.
- Targeting sleep quality in acutely traumatized individuals to reduce the risk for PTSD: study protocol for a multicentre randomized clinical trialby Clara Sayk on December 19, 2024
Background: There is a great need for feasible interventions in the initial period after a trauma that minimize the risk of developing a clinically relevant PTSD. The majority of people suffer from severe sleep disorders after a traumatic event. Because sleep is essential for processing emotional memories, we aim to improve sleep quality in acutely traumatized patients to benefit adaptive trauma processing and thereby prevent PTSD development.Objective: In a multicentre randomized controlled...