bumping this up for local vet to read:
it was a post I made here in 2009:
Posted 24 November 2009 - 10:56 AM
Definition of a Stressor:
"The VA defines a stressor based on the DMS –IV (Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) thus:
“the person experienced,witnessed,or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threathened death or serious injury,or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others, and the person’s response involved intense fe