Janie's house was broken into and the perpetrator brutally attacked her. Since the attack, she has dreamt about the attack. Each dream is as if the attack is recurring all over again. Most nights she wakes up screaming and crying. According to the criteria for PTSD, what symptom category does distressing dreams fall under?

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Distressing dreams are a symptom of re-experiencing the traumatic event, which is one of the four categories of symptoms for PTSD. Emotional numbing and detachment, hypervigilance and chronic arousal, and paranoid and delusional thinking are the other three categories of symptoms.

Janie's House Was Broken into and the Perpetrator Brutally Attacked