Trastorno Depresivo Persistente y Trastornos de Ansiedad Generalizada Proveniente de un Estrés Post Traumático Crónico: Presentación de un Caso Clínico

Abstract

Persistent depressive disorder is a chronic affective disorder that lasts for at least two years in adults and one year in children and adolescents. Patients with this diagnosis can be pessimistic, regularly negative, with little or no sense of humor, very passive, withdrawn, very critical of themselves and also of others. Patients with this disorder are likely to present generalized anxiety disorders, which is characterized by excessive and continuous concern for issues that are disproportionate to what is actually experienced, a threatening future is constantly perceived, this is difficult to control by the person and interferes with your daily routine. Many times these disorders can be derived from other diseases or disorders, such as, for example, post traumatic stress that develops as a result of having lived or witnessed a traumatic event such as a sexual assault, these patients over time do not they feel better but rather stressed or scared after the traumatic situation has concluded, in the following clinical case it is presumed that the anxious and depressive symptoms were developed as a result of chronic post-traumatic stress.

Keywords: persistent depressive disorder, generalized anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, cognitive behavioral therapy.