Acute stress disorder or ASD is when a person experiences mental health distress immediately after a traumatic event. Â ASD shares similar causes and symptoms with PTSD but differentiates from PTSD in that it is temporary and typically only lasts 3 to 30 days.
ACUTE STRESS
Treatment can help acute stress disorder
DEFINING
STRESS DISORDER
STRESS DISORDER
EFFECTS IN EVERY DAY LIFE
ASD occurs after an individual experience’s traumatic events such as such as a car accident, a mugging, sexual assault, domestic abuse, war, and natural disasters. A person with ASD experiences similar symptoms as other stress disorders like recurring thoughts of traumatic events, negative thinking, an altered sense of reality, avoidance stress triggers, difficulty sleeping and irritability and aggression.
Stress Disorder
HELP & HEALING
The Meadowglade offers individualized treatment for ASD. Our treatment program is focused on managing the effects of your trauma in you and your family’s lives so that you can recover and prevent your acute symptoms from developing into a long-term condition like PTSD.
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