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- Title
Miért pont én maradtam életben? Akut stresszreakció kezelése közúti balesetet követően.
- Authors
JÓZSEF, SZABÓ; MÁRIA, SIPOS
- Abstract
INTRODUCTION -- Survivors and witnesses of traffic accidents often experience an acute stress reaction. Immediate or at least fast psychological support, relieving the subjective suffering is very important in the respect of preventing psychological crisis, posttraumatic stress disorder or depression and the associated increasing risk of suicide. CASE REPORT -- We present the case of a 27-year-old male patient who was the victim of a traffic accident and was partly responsible for it. He lost his mother in the accident, his sister was injured, and there was a casualty in the other affected car. He applied for a psychiatric appointment one week after the accident. He complained of insomnia, loss of appetite, sadness, weakness, anxiety. The treatment consisted of low-dose anxiolytic therapy, recommended in case of need, and a psychological support via acute stress protocol (G-tep) of EMDR therapy. Both short-term feedback from his family doctor and psychiatry outpatient follow- up after three weeks showed significant symptomatic improvement. CONCLUSIONS -- In the last one and a half year, he has not applied for psychiatrical treatment. According his general practitioner there were no new psychological problems during this time. Our work has been successful in terms of immediate relief of suffering and prevention of psychological crisis and PTSD.
- Subjects
PREVENTION of mental depression; PREVENTION of post-traumatic stress disorder; PREVENTION of psychological stress; TRAFFIC accidents -- Psychological aspects; TRANQUILIZING drugs; ANXIETY; EATING disorders; GUILT (Psychology); SADNESS; SURVIVAL; SOCIAL support; SUICIDAL ideation; PATIENTS' attitudes; MUSCLE weakness
- Publication
Lege Artis Medicine (LAM), 2019, Vol 29, Issue 12, p623
- ISSN
0866-4811
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.33616/lam.29.059