Trauma And Stress Related Disorders

Anxiety

• Emotional distress experienced in prediction of negative or threatening stimuli or events

• It leads to dysfunctional disorders

Stress

• Emotional distress experienced in response to negative or threatening stimuli or events

• It leads to maladaptive disorders

Reactive attachment disorder

• A condition where a child doesn't form healthy emotional bonds with their caretakers, often because of emotional neglect or abuse at an early age

• Hypervigilant and fearful of dangers

• Avoidance of affection and emotional contact

Disinhibited social engagement disorder

• Diagnosable in early to middle childhood

• Disinterest in caretakers or family members

• Willingness to leave family members with strangers: No stranger danger

• Seeking physical contact and attention from strangers

• As with reactive attachment disorder, Disinhibited social engagement disorder is connected to emotional neglect or abuse at an early age

Social adjustment disorder

• Collection of maladaptive reactions to psychosocial stressors

• Group of unhealthy or unhelpful reactions to stressful life events, like moving, loss, or conflict

• Bad reaction to change

Prolonged grief disorder

• Formerly known as maladaptive bereavement disorder

• Considered a specific type of Social adjustment disorder concerning the death of loved one

• Intense emotional anguish like sorrow, anger, resentment, and anxiety

• Emotional numbness and social withdrawal

• Symptoms persist and intensify more severely over time

Acute stress disorder

• Severe maladaptive reactions following a traumatic event or a series of related traumatic events

• Not chronic condition

• Diagnosis window starts 3 days after the event, until 1 month

Post traumatic stress disorder

• Severe maladaptive reactions following a traumatic event or a series of related traumatic events

• Chronic condition

• Diagnosis begins 1 month after the traumatizing event

• Specified as combat related or non combat

3 pillars of post traumatic stress disorder disorder

• Intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, or nightmares

• Hyper vigilance: Easily startled (Constant fight or flight)

• Avoidance behavior: Learned associations with fear or trauma

Stockholm syndrome

• Paradoxical PTSD coping mechanism

• One forms attachments with their captors or abusers: Perceived a lack of victim abuse as kindness

• Stockholm syndrome is present in 8% of all abduction and hostage cases in which the victims survive