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Franz Kafka
Development of characteristic symptoms following exposure to a traumatic stressor involving direct personal
experience of an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury or other threat to one’s physical integrity;
or witnessing an event that involves death, injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of another person; or learning about
unexpected or violent death, serious harm, or threat of death or injury experienced by a family member or other close associate.
PTSD have been recognized since at least sixth century BC, and PTSD has been given many names including shell shock, war neurosis, soldier's heart, gross stress reaction, transient situation disturbance, tunnel disease, railway spinr disorder, combat stress, combat fatigue, battle fatigue, stress breakdown, adjustment reaction of adult life, post-Vietnam syndrome, traumatic neurosis, rape trauma syndrome, child abuse syndrome, battered wife syndrome, and Buffalo Creek syndrome.
By Anar Lalani RN, Elizabeth Deforest RN, and Hana Minarikova RN
December, 2007
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Development of characteristic symptoms following exposure to a traumatic stressor involving direct personal
experience of an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury or other threat to one’s physical integrity;
or witnessing an event that involves death, injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of another person; or learning about
unexpected or violent death, serious harm, or threat of death or injury experienced by a family member or other close associate. PTSD have been recognized since at least sixth century BC, and PTSD has been given many names including shell shock, war neurosis, soldier's heart, gross stress reaction, transient situation disturbance, tunnel disease, railway spinr disorder, combat stress, combat fatigue, battle fatigue, stress breakdown, adjustment reaction of adult life, post-Vietnam syndrome, traumatic neurosis, rape trauma syndrome, child abuse syndrome, battered wife syndrome, and Buffalo Creek syndrome.
December, 2007 |