Trauma disorders are a cluster of disorders caused by noticeable stressors. The severity of stress is gauged by the degree to which it disrupts the functioning of the individual. The impact of a stressor depends on a wide range of factors such as the importance of the stressor to the person, the duration of the stress, the cumulative effect of stressors in the person’s life, whether the stressor appears with along with other stressors, is natural or artificial and whether or not that stressor is seen by the victim as being within his/her control.

Types of Trauma Disorders:

Acute Stress Disorder: is a mental disorder that is also known as acute stress reaction or shock. This psychological condition develops in an individual in response to a traumatic event.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)is an anxiety disorder which develops in response to a traumatic indecent. The stressor in this disorder is extremely harsh and may trigger feelings of intense fear arising out of a life threatening situation, demolition of one’s home (due to natural calamity, fire or war), seeing another individual disfigured or killed, being held hostage or being the sufferer of physical violence.

Adjustment Disorder: Adjustment Disorder is a mental disorder that emerges as a psychological response to a particular stressor or group of stressors. Usually, these stressors are severe in character and can cause extreme emotional or behavioral turbulence for the affected individual. The stressors can include divorce, unemployment or childbirth.

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID): Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) was known as multiple personality disorder (MPD) in earlier times. In this disorder the individual develops various other identities known as alter personalities, each having a unique name, fragmentation and distinctive though, emotional and behavior processes. Each of these alters have separate entities with stable characteristics and the individual may or may not be aware of them.

Panic Disorder: Panic disorder is a psychiatric condition in which the individual experiences the unexpected occurrence of panic attacks that are set off by no particular reason. These attacks are extremely distressing for the patient and can cause a great deal of emotional and physical agony. They seem to come out of the blue and are extremely frightening and trigger a sense of loss of control in the individual.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD): Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is an anxiety disorder that is marked by seemingly inevitable feelings of danger and anxiety. Individuals affected by this disorder lack well developed anxiety evasion mechanisms and constantly experience extreme, uncontrollable and extreme worry about daily activities and inconsequential affairs.