The symptoms of Stress Disorder include:

Dissociative symptoms

You’ll have three or more of the following dissociative symptoms if you have STRESS DISORDER:

• feeling numb, detached, or being emotionally unresponsive
• a reduced awareness of your surroundings
• derealization, which occurs when your environment seems strange or unreal to you
• depersonalization, which occurs when your thoughts or emotions don’t seem real or don’t seem like they belong to you
• dissociative amnesia, which occurs when you cannot remember one or more important aspects of the traumatic event

Reexperiencing the traumatic event

You’ll persistently re-experience the traumatic event in one or more of the following ways if you have STRESS DISORDER:

• having recurring images, thoughts, nightmares, illusions, or flashback episodes of the traumatic event
• feeling like you’re reliving the traumatic event
• feeling distressed when something reminds you of the traumatic event

Avoidance

You may avoid stimuli that cause you to remember or re-experience the traumatic event, such as:

• people
• conversations
• places
• objects
• activities
• thoughts
• feelings

Anxiety or increased arousal

The symptoms of STRESS DISORDER may include anxiety and increased arousal. The symptoms of anxiety and increased arousal include:

• having trouble sleeping
• being irritable
• having difficulty concentrating
• being unable to stop moving or sit still
• being constantly tense or on guard
• becoming startled too easily or at inappropriate times

Distress

The symptoms of STRESS DISORDER may cause you distress or disrupt important aspects of your life, such as your social or work settings. You may have an inability to start or complete necessary tasks, or an inability to tell others about the traumatic event