Acute Stress Reaction
- transient disorder developing in response to exceptional physical / mental
stress which usually subsides within hours or days
Stressors
overwhelming traumatic experience involving serious threat to security or
physical integrity of individual / loved person
- natural catastrophe
- accident
- battle
- criminal assault
- rape
- multiple bereavement
- domestic fire
Symptoms
usually disappear within 2-3 days of episode
- initial 'daze'
- constriction and narrowing of attention
- inability to comprehend
- disorientation
- some withdrawal from situation
- autonomic signs of panic an anxiety
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