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Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2016.083
eISSN: 1857-9655
Case Reports
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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
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.
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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.
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