Comorbidity between Neurotic Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Abstract

Comorbidity with PTSD has been studied at home and abroad in follow-up studies following major traumatic events, indexing patients diagnosed with PTSD and investigating rates of comorbidity and other psychiatric disorders. In practical clinical practice, the majority of patients with PTSD are diagnosed with neurosis and depression, but the clinical manifestations and treatment of some of these patients are more complicated and difficult, and it is clinically found that these patients may have comorbidities and other mental disorders. This study in hospitalized patients with neurosis and depression as the main research object, through the investigation found that some patients (36.4%) of comorbid PTSD, just, this part of the patients reported by a traumatic event is not CCMD-3 defined in the “unusual” traumatic event. Therefore, the results of this study suggest that attention should be paid to the collection of patients’ medical history, especially the inquiry of traumatic experiences. This study is only a preliminary study with a small sample size, and the conclusions obtained need to be further confirmed in future studies.