Originally Answered: What personality disorders are common in children with narcissistic parents? Narcissism is contagious, psychologically speaking, so the child of narcissistic parents can end up entangled in the parentsâ predicament.
PTSD facts. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an emotional illness that was first formally diagnosed in soldiers and war veterans and is usually caused by terribly frightening, life-threatening, or otherwise highly unsafe experiences but can also be caused by devastating life events like unemployment or divorce.
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.