Another article on
PTSD definition expanding.
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However, the definition has been expanding to include any life-threatening disease; sexual abuse; violent crime; experiencing a hurricane, tornado, or fire, or being a political refugee.
Most people eventually recover from traumatic experiences. But some -- about 10 percent -- who experience a traumatic event will not recover but have repeated nightmares or scary thoughts about the experience.
With PTSD, the person "relives" the event and experiences great anxiety, is hyper-vigilant, startles easily and has difficulty concentrating. The recurring episodes can be so upsetting that a person avoids people or environments that tend to trigger them.
By definition, symptoms must last at least one month -- shorter episodes are designated as acute stress disorder.
Parents of children with cancer commonly suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress, both during treatment and years after their children survive the disease, according to researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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I bolded above my analysis of this situation. Physicians are being confused, and misdiagnosing through this type of thinking, being "suffer symptoms off" and not actually suffer all required symptoms to be classified as PTSD. I have been reading alot today on different variations of how PTSD is inflicted, diagnosis and traumas associated with variations off PTSD, and everything points to physicians just using PTSD as a broad spectrum to give people a name, instead of actually saying, they have Posttraumatic stress, or acute anxiety disorder, or are merely depressed, and so forth, instead they have one or two symptoms, all of which are quite cureable, but label them with PTSD.
I think this actually does the person worse than anyone else, as they think they have something they don't. As anyone here who has PTSD knows, there is no mistaking PTSD when you have it, as it doesn't come close to symptoms alone of PTSD, instead you get hit by everything, and sometimes at once.