PTSD: Common or Misused?
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Do all traumatic events lead to PTSD? If not, how does one differentiate?
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With today's managed care criteria, we often ask if many diagnoses are being misused to allow for health care coverage. Therefore, when diagnosed with PTSD we need to evaluate the criteria to categorize this ever-changing diagnosis to assure it is not used as a dumping diagnosis for all anxiety disorders and stressful events.
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Over the course of the years, the diagnosing criteria for PTSD have steadily been creeping to one that fits in to the managed care model. While many physicians would not have placed this diagnosis on their patients experiencing normal grieving or anxieties in the past, they now feel as if patients will not get the assistance needed without this stigmatic diagnosis. According to the DSM, PTSD ...
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