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Originally Posted by thickntired
Good point @VenusHalley. I'm not sure what is the specific cause. I just read that ptsd comes with anxiety
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As someone who works for the VA (Venus - it is veterans' administration, the agency that provides services for former soldiers in the US) explained to me, PTSD was called an extreme form of anxiety in order to make it an Axis I diagnosis (Anxiety is Axis I) because getting benefits for an Axis I diagnosis is so much easier than getting benefits for something that is not on Axis I in DSM. The guy said that there are other, alternative theories about what PTSD is, but getting benefits drove the decision to call PTSD an anxiety disorder.
This is what I heard in 2009.