Both Kurt and Magda survived airplane crashes.Both experience intrusive memories of the event as well as extreme anxiety and dissociative episodes.Why might one be diagnosed with acute stress disorder and the other with posttraumatic stress disorder?

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Acute stress disorder is diagnosed if symptoms last between 3 days and one month after a traumatic event, while posttraumatic stress disorder is diagnosed if symptoms persist for more than one month. Therefore, if one has had symptoms for more than thirty days and the other has not, the one with symptoms persisting for over a month would be diagnosed with PTSD while the one without would be diagnosed with acute stress disorder. The other options are not relevant factors in distinguishing between the two diagnoses.

Both Kurt and Magda Survived Airplane Crashes