Social, psychological and psychosomatic disorders in the people with combat stress in their medical histories

Abstract

The authors examined three groups of patients – military men (40 men in each group) with combat stress of different intensity in their medical histories (two main groups) and a control group – without combat stress. The results showed that the military men with a high level combat stress in the past (more than 5 years ago) more frequently demonstrated socialmental disadaptation against the background of subclinical chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The conclusion is that this group of people requires dynamic followup and adequate medicopsychological aid.

Keywords

• combat stress, chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd), subclinical manifestations of ptsd, mental disadaptation, psychosomatic disorders