Differential diagnosis and co-existing conditions

• Depression - F32# (if showing preoccupation with and rumination about a past traumatic event that emerged during a depressive episode).
• Phobic disorders - F40 (if patient avoids particular objects, situations or activities after a traumatic event, but has no non-phobic distress).
• Adjustment disorder - F43.2 (if the patient only partly fulfils criteria or the problem followed an event that was not especially traumatic).
• Generalized anxiety - F41.1 (if there are no intrusions and/or avoidance).
  

Last edited: 26/1/2004

PREVIOUS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NEXT
(Page 3 of 8 in this chapter).