Title: Types of Trauma Disorders | High Focus Centers
Headings: Trauma Disorders: Signs, Symptoms, and Treatment
Trauma Disorders: Signs, Symptoms, and Treatment
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Learn more about the signs, symptoms, and treatment for PTSD
Complex PTSD
Acute Stress Disorder (ASD)
Secondhand Trauma
Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder (DSED)
Adjustment Disorders
Other and Unspecified Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders Treatment

Content: Learn more about the signs, symptoms, and treatment for PTSD
Complex PTSD
When individuals are exposed to repeated or prolonged trauma, such as childhood abuse, they develop a slightly different condition known as complex PTSD (C-PTSD). This shares many similarities to post-traumatic stress disorder, but also has some unique symptoms including: Poor emotional regulation, which manifests as outbursts of extreme emotions like rage and depression
Negative view of self
Trouble forming healthy relationships
Behavioral difficulties like substance abuse, impulsivity, and self-destructive actions
Detaching from self (depersonalization) or reality (derealization)
Forgetting the trauma
Losing core values and beliefs
Although some mental health professionals treat complex PTSD as a distinct condition, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) categorizes the symptoms under PTSD. Acute Stress Disorder (ASD)
Acute stress disorder is very similar to PTSD, but is shorter in duration. ASD symptoms develop immediately after a traumatic event and last three days to one month. If symptoms persist beyond a month, the individual has developed PTSD. Secondhand Trauma
Secondhand trauma is also known as trauma exposure response or secondary traumatic stress disorder. It results from exposure to the firsthand trauma of other people. Symptoms of secondary traumatic stress include: A sense of hopelessness or helplessness
Feeling like you can never do enough to help
Hypervigilance
Guilt
Fear
Anger
Negativity/cynicism
Chronic fatigue
Secondhand trauma can happen to anyone, but it commonly affects professionals who work with trauma victims such as counselors, social workers, first responders, doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers.