Answer:
Acute stress disorder
Step-by-step explanation:
Acute stress disorder (ASD) is a mental health condition that can occur immediately after a traumatic event. It can cause a range of psychological symptoms and it can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder.
Unlike PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder), ASD is a temporary condition and symptoms typically persist for at least 3 to 30 days after the traumatic event.
If this symptoms persists for more than 30 days after the traumatic event, then we can probably diagnose the person with PTSD.
The symptoms for both conditions are pretty much the same, so the only thing that varies is the period where the symptoms take place.
The symptoms usually are:
- Intrusion symptoms. A person is unable to stop revisiting a traumatic event through flashbacks, memories, or dreams.
- Negative mood. A person may experience negative thoughts, sadness, and low mood.
- Dissociative symptoms. These can include an altered sense of reality, a lack of awareness of the surroundings, and an inability to remember parts of the traumatic event.
- Avoidance symptoms. People with these symptoms purposefully avoid thoughts, feelings, people, or places that they associate with the traumatic event.
- Arousal symptoms. These can include insomnia and other sleep disturbances, difficulty concentrating, and irritability or aggression.
In this example, Salina was terrified during the San Francisco earthquake of 1999, for a couple of weeks she did not sleep well of feel comfortable inside a building but these symptoms disappeared after one month.
Thus, she would most likely be diagnosed with Acute stress disorder since she had symptoms for only a month.