i think i have acute stress disorder. does this disorder cause trouble breathing and chest pains? because i have this so i don't know if it's this or something else. help!
2006-06-07 11:53:38 · 5 answers · asked by vagirl098765 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
i had to go through finding my dad on the ground after he jumped off the roof and i had to take him to the hospital...this was about a month ago...i didn't think it really affected me this much...and i don't really have flashbacks...so i don't know if it could be this?
2006-06-07 12:00:31 · update #1
Acute stress disorder: The anxiety and behavioral disturbances that develop within a month of exposure to extreme trauma. The symptoms of an acute stress disorder usually begin during or shortly following the trauma. Such extreme traumatic events include rape or other severe physical assault, near-death experiences in accidents, witnessing a murder, and combat.
The symptom of dissociation, which reflects a perceived detachment of the mind from the emotional state or even the body, is a critical feature. Dissociation also is characterized by a sense of the world as a dreamlike or unreal place and may be accompanied by poor memory of the specific events, which in severe form is known as dissociative amnesia.
Other features of acute stress disorder include symptoms of generalized anxiety and hyperarousal, avoidance of situations or stimuli that elicit memories of the trauma, and persistent, intrusive recollections of the event via flashbacks, dreams, or recurrent thoughts or visual images.
If the symptoms and behavioral disturbances of the acute stress disorder persist for more than a month, and if these features are associated with functional impairment or significant distress to the sufferer, the diagnosis is changed to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
2006-06-07 11:57:32 · answer #1 · answered by Bear Naked 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know about acute but post-traumatic stress disorder can cause shortness of breath like a panic or anxiety attack and chest pain - i know, i suffer from PTSD as the result of a horrible MVA (car wreck)
try looking here:
http://www.mental-health-matters.com/disorders/dis_details.php?disID=1
2006-06-07 11:57:53 · answer #2 · answered by canary 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to panicsurvivor.com. You can learn a lot on this site. You do have anxiety disorder which can be helped with meds.
2006-06-07 12:08:27 · answer #3 · answered by Irish 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have an anxiety disorder and I get those symptoms.
2006-06-07 11:56:50 · answer #4 · answered by lovebug 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out (http://www.reducingstress.net ) there is a lot of great content, information articles, expert advice and links on the subject there.
2006-06-07 13:26:10 · answer #5 · answered by marketingexpert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋