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
Support Group: NAMI-nami.org
Contact your local Social Security office for possible Disability Income Benefits under their section 12.05
Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
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- Green tea EGCG effectively alleviates experimental colitis in middle-aged male mice by attenuating multiple aspects of oxi-inflammatory stress and cell cycle deregulationby Bhawna Diwan on July 2, 2022
Age-dependent increased risk of inflammatory bowel diseases such as ulcerative colitis is being increasingly realized, and yet therapies targeting this disorder within the purview of aging are limited. The present study attempted to assess the efficacy of green tea epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) consumption in preventing the severity and progression of dextran sulphate sodium (DSS)-induced ulcerative colitis in 18 months old middle-aged male mice. Acute colitis was induced in animals using DSS...
- Post-traumatic stress disorder in major accidents: systematic review and meta-analysisby Carlos Manoel Lopes Rodrigues on July 1, 2022
Major accidents are defined as accidents whose consequences spread spatially and temporally from acute events related to production activities. Exposure to these accidents has psychological impacts on individuals, including the development of mental disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder. Thus, the aim of this study was to identify and analyze the evidence available in the literature on the relationship between exposure to major accidents and the development of posttraumatic stress...
- Associations among civilian mild traumatic brain injury with loss of consciousness, posttraumatic stress disorder symptom trajectories, and structural brain volumetric databy Siddhartha Kosaraju on July 1, 2022
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is prevalent and associated with significant morbidity. Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) concurrent with psychiatric trauma may be associated with PTSD. Prior studies of PTSD-related structural brain alterations have focused on military populations. The current study examined correlations between PTSD, acute mTBI, and structural brain alterations longitudinally in civilian patients (N = 504) who experienced a recent Criterion A traumatic event. Participants...
- Mothers' Anxiety to Aggravated Acute Fear of Earthquakes in the City of Zagreb in the COVID-19 Pandemicby Ana Tikvica Luetić on June 30, 2022
CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge, our study is the only national study dealing with mental health problems in a population of puerperal and breastfeeding mothers in a challenging time of COVID-19 pandemic aggravated by devastating earthquake.