“High-functioning PTSD is a term used to describe people who experience post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms while ...

A new Macquarie University study suggests that instead of relying on the 'bible' of mental health diagnosis, we need a ...

Complex PTSD is not a recognized diagnosis in the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), partly due to its overlap with symptoms of PTSD. However ...

A diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression commonly co-occur. PTSD is characterized by symptoms of ...

Conditions similar to complex PTSD Enduring personality changes after catastrophic events (EPCACE). To have a diagnosis of EPCACE, the person needs to have a personality change that lasts 2 years ...

According to the current definition in the fourth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV), PTSD occurs subsequent to a trauma that constitutes ...

Although diagnostic criteria for prolonged grief disorder are now found in ICD-11 and DSM-5, and a substantial literature on efficacious treatments exists, 46 formal guidelines for the treatment ...

Irritability may be caused by psychological and physical conditions, such as anxiety, hormonal changes, and blood sugar ...

including the APA's "1974 decision to replace the DSM-II diagnosis of homosexuality per se with sexual orientation disturbance, which was revised in 1980 in DSM-III as ego dystonic homosexuality." ...