Not one thing at a time : When concomitant multiple stressors produce a transdiagnostic clinical picture

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A condition of exposure to multiple stressors resulting in a mixed clinical picture spanning conventional categories without meeting any of them in full, encompasses a risk for a list of comorbidities preventing appropriate prevention and treatment. New transformative transdiagnostic approaches suggest changes spanning conventional categories. They base their systems of classification on biomarkers as well as on brain structural and functional dysregulation as associated with behavioral and emotional symptoms. These new approaches received critiques for not being specific enough and for suggesting a few biomarkers for psychopathology as a whole. Therefore, they put the value of differential diagnosis at risk of avoiding appropriate derived prevention and treatment. Multiplicity of stressors has been considered mostly during and following catastrophes, without considering the resulting mixed clinical picture and life event concomitant stressors. We herewith suggest a new category within the conventional classification systems: The Complex Stress Reaction Syndrome, for a condition of multiplicity of stressors, which showed a mixed clinical picture for daily life in the post coronavirus disease 2019 era, in the general population. We argue that this condition may be relevant to daily, regular life, across the lifespan, and beyond conditions of catastrophes. We further argue that this condition may worsen without professional care and it may develop into a severe mental health disorder, more costly to health systems and the suffering individuals. Means for derived prevention and treatment are discussed.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

World journal of psychiatry - 13(2023), 7 vom: 19. Juli, Seite 402-408

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Goldstein Ferber, Sari [VerfasserIn]
Shoval, Gal [VerfasserIn]
Weller, Aron [VerfasserIn]
Zalsman, Gil [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Clinical picture
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Interpersonal psychotherapy
Journal Article
Multiple stressors
Prevention
Review
Transdiagnostic
Treatment

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Date Revised 08.08.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.5498/wjp.v13.i7.402

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM360474047