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Adjustment disorders and their impact

Adjustment disorders and their impact

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Created by: Top Doctors editorial
Edited by: TOP DOCTORS® at 17/03/2019

Disorders are defined as a significant alteration of the person, which are associated with a traumatic event and an important social and occupational disability

Dr. Carlos Sanchez Ramos

social adaptation The difficulty in understanding and evaluating what is normal or not very present when we talk about adaptation. In adaptive effort there is a wide range of situations, environments, circumstances, mental and emotional states.

We speak of disorder, in question, when a significant alteration of the person presents. Expressed differently, he knows differently. The same goes for their behavior and regulate their emotions. Usually the disorder is associated with significant stress and a very important social and occupational disability.

Adjustment disorders are a very interesting topic for his enormous frequency and the difficulty of the tendency to label them as disorders and difficulty of the tendency to miss what can be presented as a disorder. In many clinics and hospitals psychiatric consultation may be cause 70% of cases and sometimes more.

The disorder is generated after exposure to a traumatic event

In life, fit is an art that we learn and teach us from birth. This ability consider it disorder when there is a disproportionate psychological distress as an adaptive response after exposure to a traumatic, stressful, catastrophic event, aversive. This response is manifested in the 3 months following the fact that the fires. The answer can not prevent, mitigate trauma, assimilate so that is not very painful and in a time that does not overwhelm or confuse enough to despair importantly. His discomfort felt a bleak environment.

The maladaptive response is varied, as varied as the differences of people. May be common a very low mood and feelings of hopelessness, intense nervousness, constant worry and constant alert, in addition to feelings of being overwhelmed, anger, irritability, violent behavior, obsessions several, tormented doubt. So the title of disorders.

The person lives with intensity and often can not hide it, it feels very affected. Every day struggling trying to find some way out. Suicide attempts or completed suicides in this situation are very common. The person is exceeded and after many failed attempts at adaptation are encouraged to ask for help. That comes in health personnel.

Factors and events that can trigger disorders

Stressors can be of any kind. A number of situations that occur at any stage and time of life. Very often are losses, but not always. The death of a pet, the own illness or a family member, trouble with the school environment of a teenager, any catastrophe, any loss, significant unanticipated change. The response to a stressful situation is very personal. For you see the outside perception is very different than for the interested. At that prompted aid you should take this into account.

In the office it is required to consider the type of mental, emotional and behavioral expression. Inquire if there is a medical condition disease that is expressed with these symptoms. Assess the mental condition and previous personality. Evaluate the use of drugs. Be alert to the presence of a psychopathology. Having an attitude of help involves attentive and interested listener, a provision focused on the therapeutic relationship.

If the person perceives being evaluated, understood and listened to feel stronger, better attitude to find the desired adaptation. You can understand quickly or take years to settle and adapt.

Psychiatry