Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)-primary symptoms

What will be an ideal response?


a. Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence in > 1 ways:
Direct experience
Witnessed
Learned about s/t happening to close family member / friend
Repeated / extreme exposure to adverse details of traumatic event
b. Event persistently re-experienced (memories, dreams, flashbacks) ... or intense / prolonged distress ... or marked physiological reactions
c. Avoids stimuli associated with trauma/ responsive numbing
d. Alteration in cognitions and mood (memory problems; negative beliefs / expectations; distorted thoughts about event; negative emotional states; anhedonia; feelings of detachment; inability to feel positive emotions)
e. Alteration in arousal and reactivity

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