Acute or prolonged stress from loss, trauma, or conflict can result in psychological and biological changes like anger, guilt, shame, anxiety, and depression. These unresolved stresses may manifest as emotional pain and symptoms. Stressors are natural parts of human experience that often stem from social interactions and relationships.

1. Demetrios Peratsakis, MS, PD, LPC, ACS
Training in Counseling and Psychotherapy
January 2017

2. Symptom Development
Acute or Prolonged Stress Result in Psychological and Biological Changes
1) Loss
2) Trauma (harm) or
3) Conflict (power-struggles)
Anger,
Guilt,
and Shame
Anxiety and
Depression
Symptoms
Emotional Pain
Demetrios Peratsakis, MS, PD, LPC, ACS

3.  1) Loss, 2) Trauma (harm) and 3) Conflict (power-struggles) are natural
conditions of the human experience, most resulting from social
interactions and interpersonal transactions (relationships)
 Each results in varying degrees of Anger, Guilt and Shame
 The resulting stress may be sudden or prolonged (tension) and is
expressed in the psychological and biochemical conditions we call
anxiety and depression.
 Unresolved, they result in the kind of behaviors or transactional
patterns we regard as dysfunctional and call “symptoms”