[Post-traumatic stress]

Pol Merkur Lekarski. 2012 Jan;32(187):5-8.
[Article in Polish]

Abstract

As civilization advanced, the number of disasters, including their types and size of the threat to humanity. In addition to natural disasters and wars, there are currently a disaster communication, environmental and technological. Disasters "new generation" include increasingly frequent bombings and terrorist attacks. These events are an impediment to long-lasting and deep impact on the mental functioning of the victims of the event. This represents a potential risk of a variety of psychopathological symptoms, which go beyond the limits of human suffering. ICD-I0 classification includes individuals sickness arising as a consequence of pathological after surviving the disaster, which include: acute stress disorder (ASD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), post-traumatic stress disorder linked to depression, symptoms anxiety, addictions, dissociative disorders and personality changes and permanent after the disaster.

Publication types

  • Editorial
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Bombs
  • Disasters
  • Humans
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / diagnosis*
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / psychology*
  • Stress Disorders, Traumatic, Acute / diagnosis*
  • Stress Disorders, Traumatic, Acute / psychology*
  • Stress, Psychological / psychology
  • Terrorism / psychology