Trauma, Critical Care and Reconstructive Surgery

Acute-traumatic stress disorder

ATSD is a mental illness condition that takes place straight after a traumatic event. It causes psychological symptoms and without proper treatment for this illness it can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder. People undergoing ATSD show symptoms similar to those of PTSD and other stress disorders. Intrusion symptoms, negative mood, dissociative symptoms, arousal symptoms, avoidance symptoms. A person with ATSD develops an additional mental illness disorders such as anxiety and depression.