Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Following Combat Exposure:

The British Journal of PsychiatryPublished 1 September 1986

Avraham Bleich, B.V. Siegel, Ronald Garb, Bernard Lerer

DOI10.1192/bjp.149.3.365

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Post-traumatic stress disorder may follow combat stress or civilian psychological traumata, and symptoms were severe in terms of number of DSM–III items fulfilled, chronicity, and severity of psychosocial disability.

Abstract

Post-traumatic stress disorder may follow combat stress or civilian psychological traumata. In 25 retrospectively studied patients, symptoms were severe in terms of number of DSM-III items fulfilled, chronicity, and severity of psychosocial disability. Antidepressants had good or moderate results in 67% of cases treated, but major tranquilisers were much less effective; response to drug treatment was not clearly related to somatisation symptoms, significant depression, or panic attacks. Pharmacotherapy appeared to have had a positive impact on psychotherapy in 70% of cases.

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