The Remission of Social Anxiety Disorder After Trauma: A Case Report of Posttraumatic Growth?

We report the case of a patient previously diagnosed with social anxiety disorder (SAD), whose symptoms remitted, and life view improved after a traumatic event, illustrating a case of PTG. The trauma shattered the patient's previous belief system, allowing the emergence of a new cognitive schema. Although PTG and symptom remission do not necessarily correspond to the same construct, we believe that these phenomena were related to each other in this case, probably because of a notable change in our patient's underlying belief system.
Source: Frontiers in Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research