Conference paper

COMORBIDITY – A TROUBLESOME FACTOR IN PTSD TREATMENT

Elizabeta Dadić-Hero ; Department of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia
Ines Torić ; Institute for Clinical, Health and Organizational Psychology, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Croatia
Klementina Ružić ; University Psychiatric Clinic Rijeka, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Croatia
Paola Medved ; University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom
Mirjana Graovac ; University Psychiatric Clinic Rijeka, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Croatia

Abstract

Posttraumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) is a disorder which emerges after the patient has experienced one or more psychotraumatic events, which equally include neurobiological deregulation and psychological dysfunction. Comorbidity is present in more than 80% of the diagnosed cases of PTSD, which makes treatment of the
primary disorder very difficult.
It has been identified that PTSD can be found in comorbidity with other psychiatric disorders as well as with physical illnesses.
This study presents aged 42, who has been psychiatrically treated for the past 12 years, with a diagnose of chronic PTSD and who subsequently developed depression. The patient has been treated for psoriasis for the past seven years, and two years ago, had to undergo surgery due to bladder carcinoma, followed by a
radiotherapy course. Multiple comorbidity significantly makes the treatment of the primary illness very difficult and it limits the choice of pharmacotherapy in ambulatory conditions.

Keywords

PTSD; comorbidity-depression; psoriasis; bladder carcinoma

Hrčak ID:

49326

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/49326

Publication date:

25.6.2009.

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