During a crisis event, the biggest difference in Acute Stress Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is that the ASD is the stress that happens here and now. The disorders can function in two completely different ways but may have the same symptoms. In ASD, one of the difference is that you are diagnosis with ASD within the first month from the traumatic experience. If the symptoms of the traumatic event were to continue beyond that month, the psychotherapist would then assess that the patient has a case of PTSD. ASD would then have no need to apply itself in this aspect of care. Another way that ASD and PTSD differ from one another is that requires an individual to experience numbing, depersonalization, reduced awareness and amnesia (United
