Acute Stress Disorder

Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) is a psychiatric diagnosis closely related to PTSD on how it is diagnosed. ASD contains a greater emphasis on dissociative symptoms. ASD is diagnosed within one month after a traumatic event. PTSD and ASD differ in two ways. The first is, ASD is only from the first month. If posttraumatic symptoms continue, it is then labeled PTSD. ASD has more of an emphasis on dissociative symptoms. ASD also requires that the person experience three symptoms of dissociation (numbing, reduced awareness, depersonalization, derealization, or amnesia). People who have experienced prior trauma, have prior PTSD, or have more psychiatric dysfunction are more likely to experience ASD. ASD can be diagnosed two ways. The first way is