{"id":38594,"date":"2021-02-19T08:45:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T13:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starr-commonwealth-new.local\/?p=38594"},"modified":"2021-02-19T08:45:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T13:45:20","slug":"post-covid-stress-disorder-and-pandemic-trauma-and-stress-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starr.org\/2021\/post-covid-stress-disorder-and-pandemic-trauma-and-stress-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-COVID Stress Disorder and Pandemic Trauma and Stress Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The COVID-19 pandemic is triggering a wide variety of emotional, physical, and economic issues. There is extreme distress and children and adults alike are reporting worry, fear, hurt, and anger along with symptoms and reactions such as anxiety, depression, fatigue, difficulty focusing, problematic behavior, and the use of at-risk coping skills such as substance abuse. There is grief over what has been lost, and uncertainty about how to navigate daily life and concerns about what the future holds. Exposure to the pandemic, however, does not fit neatly within prevailing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. This is because the DSM-5 attributes traumatic stress reactions to past, and largely direct, exposure to certain life-threatening events, and thus do not readily account for emerging evidence that COVID-19 is associated with PTSD symptomology (Bridgeland, et al., 2021)<\/p>\n

Fortunately, there is literature appearing that provides us with names for all we are experiencing related to the pandemic. Post-COVID Stress Disorder\u00a0<\/em>and Pandemic Trauma and Stress Experience<\/em> refer to the abundant responses and psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic (Taxman, Owen & Essig, 2021).<\/p>\n

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