smalley
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acute stress disorder vs post traumatic stress disorder vs brief psychotic disorder vs adjustment disorder
can someone help to differentiate among these,sp between adjustment disorder vs post traumatic disorder
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Edited by smalley on 03/09/08 - 08:30 PM
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| nany
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[Acute stress disorder] & [PTSD] are the same but differ in the duration ......, if the duration of symptoms is less than one month then it's the 1st, and if it exceeds one month then it's the 2nd
now for [brief Psychotic disorder] it's a complete different thing, it's just a Schizophrenia with all the Psychotic features but with a duration of symptoms less than a month......
and if the symptoms exceeds a month but still less than 6 months then it'll be [Schizophreniform disorder], and when it exceeds 6 month then it's Schizophrenia
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| smalley
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thanks nany but how to diff between adjustment disorder and post traumatic disorder?i know that in post traumatic ,people will have recurrent flasbacks ,nightmares etc but apart from these, any other way to diff between the two?
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| nyimalay
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I was confused by these two disorders too.
Here is how I try to differentiate.
1. Normal grief - as you would have been well known, the amount of distress is proportionate to stressor
2. Adjustment d/o- maladaptive reaction to less serious stressor
the symptoms cause functional impairment,
depressive symptom> flash backs
3. ASD/PTSD - occur in response to truely serious stressor
flash backs, palpitations > depression , function impaired
More inputs please!
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| smalley
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thanks nyimalay ur input is helpful,will try to approach by that method
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