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  2. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder - Wikipedia

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    Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD, cPTSD, or hyphenated C-PTSD) is a stress-related mental and behavioral disorder generally occurring in response to complex traumas [1] (i.e., commonly prolonged or repetitive exposures to a series of traumatic events, from which one sees little or no chance to escape).

  3. Management of post-traumatic stress disorder - Wikipedia

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    Evidence-based, trauma-focused psychotherapy is the first-line treatment for PTSD. [1] [2] [3] Psychotherapy is defined as a treatment where a therapist and patient build a therapeutic relationship and focus on the patient's thoughts, attitudes, affect, behavior, and social development to lessen the patient's psychopathologies and functional impairment.

  4. Psychological abuse - Wikipedia

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    Psychological abuse, often known as emotional abuse or mental abuse or psychological violence or non-physical abuse, is a form of abuse [1] · characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another person [2] [3] to a behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety [4], chronic depression, clinical depression or post-traumatic stress disorder amongst [5] other ...

  5. Post-traumatic stress disorder - Wikipedia

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    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) [b] is a mental and behavioral disorder [8] that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, warfare and its associated traumas, natural disaster, traffic collision, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.

  6. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing - Wikipedia

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    As of 2017, the American Psychological Association "conditionally recommends" EMDR for the treatment of PTSD in adults, meaning its use is suggested rather than recommended. [ 37 ] The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence 's 2018 PTSD guidelines found low-to-very-low evidence of efficacy for EMDR in treating PTSD, but what was ...

  7. Psychological trauma - Wikipedia

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    Psychological trauma (also known as mental trauma, psychiatric trauma, emotional damage, or psychotrauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events, such as bodily injury, sexual violence, or other threats to the life of the subject or their loved ones; indirect exposure, such as from watching television news, may be extremely distressing and can produce an involuntary and ...

  8. Medically unexplained physical symptoms - Wikipedia

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    The plethora of terms reflects imprecision and uncertainty in their definition, controversy, and care taken to avoid stigmatising affected people. [7] Risk factors for medically unexplained symptoms are complex and include both psychological and organic features, and such symptoms are often accompanied by other somatic symptoms attributable to ...

  9. Post-traumatic embitterment disorder - Wikipedia

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    Post-traumatic Embitterment disorder; Specialty: Psychiatry, Clinical psychology: Symptoms: Severe emotional symptoms and behavioral problems in direct temporal connection to the triggering event; recurring intrusive thoughts; avolition; dysphoric-aggressive-depressive mood; unspecific somatic symptoms; phobic avoidance of persons or places related to the triggering event; fantasies of ...