The diagnosis of acute stress<unk>  is based on the DSM-5<unk>  criteria, which include criterion A i.e the exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violation in one (or more) of the following ways such as directly experiencing the traumatic event(s), witnessing, in person, the event(s) as it occured to others, learning that the event(s) occured toa close family member or close friend, and experiencing repeated or extreme exposure to aversive details of the traumatic event(s), criterion B i.e presence of nine (or more) of the symptoms from any of the five categories of intrusion, negative mood, dissociation, avoidance, and arousal, beginning or worsening  after the traumatic event(s) occurred, criterion C i.e duration of the disturbance (symptoms in Criterion B) is 3 days to 1 month after trauma exposure, criterion D i.e the disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational,or other important areas of functioning, and criterion E i.e the disturbance is not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance (e.g., medication or alcohol) or another medical condition (e.g., mild traumatic brain injury])and is not better explained by brief psychotic<unk> .
Acute stress disorder diagnostic criteria
Generalized anxiety disorder classification
Acute stress disorder epidemiology and demographics
Anhedonia diagnostic criteria
Clinical depression diagnostic criteria
Bipolar II disorder diagnostic criteria
Bipolar disorder diagnostic criteria
Bipolar I disorder diagnostic criteria