As I noted about a decade ago when I first tackled âhighfalutin,â the origin of the word is uncertain. The reader who sent in that question in 1999 had heard that âhighfalutinâ originally denoted a fine grade of flour used to make a superior sort of bread.
DSM-5 Category: Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders. Introduction. The category of âTrauma and Stressor-related Disordersâ is a new rubric for the variously-named forms of post-traumatic stress disorder, shell shock, combat neurosis and the like.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was one of the diagnoses that received some revisions (PDF). PTSD used to be considered a type of anxiety disorder and in this edition was moved into a new category: âTrauma and Stress-related Disordersâ. This could help de-stigmatize PTSD since it is no longer an anxiety related mental illness, but a disorder connected to an external event.