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[Lucycat]

http://psychcentral.com/lib/types-of-ptsd/000666
This is where it comes from. However I agree with you @digger it is bizarre that they list NORMAL stress response as a type of PTSD. It simply does not make sense!

I have also had a further look at 'psychcentral' and cannot see who the site is owned/run by. I can see no way of identifying if it is legitimate and to be trusted or simple a mass of opinions. It claims to be trusted by the world - but why?

 

[joeylittle]

Those "five main types" were no-where to be found on the actual National Center for PTSD site (http://www.ptsd.va.gov/). I did a very rigorous search.
The PsychCentral artical cited dates back to 2006

I'm now having fun trying to find whether these five types were ever published anywhere; or whether PsychCentral kind of made it up.

I'm back. This quote is helpful, on Acute Stress Disorder:

How do PTSD and ASD differ?
ASD and PTSD differ in two fundamental ways. The first difference is that the diagnosis of ASD can be given only within the first month following a traumatic event. If posttraumatic symptoms were to persist beyond a month, the clinician would assess for the presence of PTSD. The ASD diagnosis would no longer apply.

ASD also differs from PTSD in that it includes a greater emphasis on dissociative symptoms. An ASD diagnosis requires that a person experience three symptoms of dissociation (e.g., numbing, reduced awareness, depersonalization, derealization, or amnesia), while the PTSD diagnosis does not include a dissociative symptom cluster. Please see Bryant and Harvey's comprehensive text on ASD (1) for a thorough discussion of the differences between ASD and PTSD.

(http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/treatment/early/acute-stress-disorder.asp)

And I found the source of the "five types" mentioned on PsychCentral.
http://www.acnp.org/g4/GN401000111/CH109.html
That's a link to an article written for the the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
The theory of the "five types" of PTSD was put forward by Dr. Charles Marmar in a different study which is cited within the article above. ([DLMURL]http://psych.med.nyu.edu/research/research-faculty/charles-marmar-md[/DLMURL])

As far as I can tell, that theory has always remained a theory - a different way to categorize PTSD that was never adopted by the larger psychiatric community.

Hope some of this helps. Signing off, your friendly neighborhood researcher.

 

[TeaLeaf]

whserenitynluv-I am really impressed but how helpful the therapy has been for you, it sounds very intense but that it is helping a lot. I wish doctors would look at diet and lifestyle choices more, I personally have found a significant reduction in depression from cutting out gluten and am trying to cut down sugar now to see if it helps.
What antihistamine are you on if I may ask? Is it vistaril? Benadryl?