For PTSD to occur, a person must have been directly exposed to a traumatic event that involved an actual or threatened serious injury or death to oneself or others, and the person must have reacted to the event with intense fear, helplessness or horror.
PTSD occurs as a result of exposure to extreme traumatic stressors that arouse feelings of intense fear, helplessness, and horror in exposed individuals [22].
PTSD is a condition in which an overwhelming traumatic event results in intense fear, helplessness, horror, and avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma [13].
Intense fear, helplessness or horror were thought to result in more PTSD, but those indicators have been removed from the newest version of the manual, because it's been found that they don't predict who will and won't suffer.
The person's response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror.
Many people experience ASD after exposure to a traumatic event in which they felt intense fear, helplessness or horror.
The person's immediate response involves intense fear, helplessness or horror.
A vast majority (69.3%) also reported experiencing intense fear, helplessness, or horror during the disaster (peritraumatic fear).
In 2000, childhood sexual abuse was recognised as a qualifying traumatic event [ 9], which typically results in intense fear, helplessness or horror.
Post-traumatic stress can occur after an individual is exposed to an event perceived as life threatening, and associated with intense fear, helplessness, or horror (American Psychiatric Association, 2000).
