[International] [Peer Reviewed] 

About OAMJMS

Our policies

OAMJMS Online

For contributors

Services

Why publish in OAMJMS?
Editors
Boards
Publication fee
Indexing
Membership
Evaluation

Editorial & publishing policies
Competing interests policy 
Open access
Open access license

Reviewer guidelines
CrossCheck Plagiarism Screening
CrossMark Policy Page

Online first
Current issue
Journal archive

Online first fact sheet
Free Registration
Contact
Webmail

Guidelines  [pdf]
Online submission MC
Online submission OJS
Help for authors
Cover letter
Reviewers of OAMJMS

Reviewer Summary

Transliteration
Subscriptions

Sponsors
Reprints and permissions
Resources
ICMJE Disclosure Form

 

ID Design 2012/DOOEL Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences.

http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2016.083
eISSN: 1857-9655

Case Reports

 

 

Enduring Personality Changes after Intense Stressful Event: Case Report


 

Slavica Arsova1*, Nensi Manusheva1, Gabriela Kopacheva-Barsova2, Stojan Bajraktarov1


1University Psychiatry Clinic, Faculty of Medicine, Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia; 2University Clinic for Ear, Nose and Throat, Faculty of Medicine, Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Vodnjanska 17, Skopje 1109, Republic of Macedonia

 

Abstract

 

 

BACKGROUND: World statistical data show that a large number of individuals suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after exposure to the intense traumatic event. PTSD can have a chronic course with enduring changes in the functioning of the person.

CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report two adult individuals of different gender and education who were exposed to the extremely severe stressful event after which difficulties in psychological functioning developed. The first case we present is a 46-year-old man, with completed high education, divorced, father of two children, who lives with his parents, and is retired. Disorders appeared 20 years ago when he was exposed to extremely severe stressful events in war circumstances that included captivity, torture, and loss of fellow soldiers. The second case is a 50-year-old female patient, with a university degree, professor of art, married, and mother of two children of whom the son died six years ago. She suffered from disorders after the sudden injury of her son that ended with his death.

CONCLUSION: Posttraumatic stress disorder after the intense stress is a risk of development enduring personality changes with serious individual and social consequences.
 

..................

Citation: Arsova S, Manusheva N, Kopacheva-Barsova G, Bajraktarov S. Enduring Personality Changes after Intense Stressful Event: Case Report. Open Access Maced J Med Sci. http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2016.083
Keywords: posttraumatic stress disorder; enduring personality changes; SSRI anti-depressive; anti-psychotic; psycho stabilising therapy; case report; Republic of Macedonia.
*Correspondence: Slavica Arsova, MD. University Psychiatry Clinic, Faculty of Medicine, Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. E-mail: arsova_s@yahoo.com
Received: 14-Jun-2016; Revised: 09-Jul-2016; Accepted: 28-Jul-2016; Online first: 17-Aug-2016
Copyright: © 2016 Slavica Arsova, Nensi Manusheva, Gabriela Kopacheva-Barsova, Stojan Bajraktarov. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

 

< Previous | Next Article >

Table of contents

 

This Article (free)

Full text (pdf)

Full text OnlineFirst (pdf)


Google Scholar

- Arsova S
- Manusheva N
- Kopacheva-Barsova G
- Bajraktarov S


PubMed

- Arsova S
- Manusheva N
- Kopacheva-Barsova G
- Bajraktarov S

 

Altmetric
 

 


Published by: Id Design 2012/DOOEL Skopje, Republic of Macedonia


Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.