Traumatic stress

Traumatic stress is a common term for reactive anxiety and depression, although it is not a medical term and is not included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The experience of traumatic stress include subtypes of anxiety, depression, and disturbance of conduct along with combinations of these symptoms, resulting from events that are less threatening and distressing than those that lead to post-traumatic stress disorder. The fifth edition of the DSM describes in a section titled 'Trauma and Stress-Related Disorders' dis-inhibited social engagement disorder, reactive attachment disorder, acute stress disorder, adjustment disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Traumatic stress is a common term for reactive anxiety and depression, although it is not a medical term and is not included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The experience of traumatic stress include subtypes of anxiety, depression, and disturbance of conduct along with combinations of these symptoms, resulting from events that are less threatening and distressing than those that lead to post-traumatic stress disorder. The fifth edition of the DSM describes in a section titled 'Trauma and Stress-Related Disorders' dis-inhibited social engagement disorder, reactive attachment disorder, acute stress disorder, adjustment disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Symptoms of traumatic stress can be both physical and emotional. Physical symptoms of traumatic stress include trembling, shaking, a pounding heart, rapid breathing, feeling a lump in the throat, feeling as if one is choking, stomach tightening and churning, feelings of dizziness and faintness, and cold sweats. Emotional symptoms include racing thoughts and excessive feelings of shock, disbelief, fear, sadness, helplessness, guilt, anger, shame, and anxiety. Dis-inhibited social engagement disorder is a stress-related disorder stemming from neglect during an individual's childhood. According to Erikson's work on the stages of psychosocial development, the psycho-social crisis of trust versus mistrust during infancy causes neglect during that period to have permanent effects because a neglected infant does not learn to trust his parent due to his parent's failure to fulfill his basic needs. Feelings of mistrust and anxiety may eventually lead to traumatic stress, especially through dis-inhibited social engagement disorder, among other disorders. Symptom persistence is necessary for a diagnosis of dis-inhibited social engagement disorder: specific symptoms must be present for at least twelve months. Another disorder related to dis-inhibited social engagement disorder is reactive attachment disorder, a trauma disorder that arises when a parent does not console a child when he is feeling upset. A repetition of this behavior causes sadness, irritability, and fear, which can then lead to reactive attachment disorder. A cluster of symptoms relating to indiscriminate behaviors is regarded as dis-inhibited social engagement disorder rather than reactive attachment disorder; symptoms of reactive attachment disorder must be inhibited. Both dis-inhibited social engagement disorder and reactive attachment disorder are related to severe pathogenic care. Another disorder in this category is acute stress disorder, which is listed in the DSM-5 under code 308.3, ICD-10, F43.0. According to the DSM-5 'Acute Stress Disorder is caused by trauma (traumatic stress) and lasts at least 3 days.' Another disorder in this category is adjustment disorder DSM-5 code 309, ICD-10, F43-2. 'Adjustment disorder is a manipulative reaction to identifiable psycho-social stressor(s) or life change(s) characterized by preoccupation with the stressor and failure to adapt.' The last disorder listed in the DSM-5 is post-traumatic stress disorder. 'Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, rape or other violent personal assault.'