Anxiety disorders manifested by the development of characteristic symptoms following a psychologically traumatic event that is outside the normal range of usual human experience. Symptoms include re-experiencing the traumatic event, increased arousal, and numbing of responsiveness to or reduced involvement with the external world. Traumatic stress disorders can be further classified by the time of onset and the duration of these symptoms.

Annotation

STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC, ACUTE is also available

DUI

D040921 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0424629

Previous indexing

Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic (1980-2002); Stress, Psychological (1965-2002)

History note

2003

Public note

2003