Tell Me More About Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
9. What can cause similar symptoms?
Panic attacks include many symptoms that resemble PTSD, in particular hyper-arousal and excessive fear. However, the main fear during a panic attack is that of impending incapacitation by anxiety, while the main fear for people suffering from PTSD is that another traumatic event may occur.
Preoccupation with a loss, distressing dreams and moodiness are common in grief. Grief can reach abnormal proportion in cases of a pathological grief reaction and turn into depression.
Deep Knowledge Reference
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th Edition Text Revision. 2000 American Psychiatric Association, Washington DC.
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