Stress as a diagnostic challenge for psychiatric disorders

At the Stress Clinic we are investigating nine areas in which stress factors may play an important part: social habits, social relationships, life events, psychiatric, sexual, sleep, geriatric, menstrual and stress and the heart. The degree of stress in each area is quantified and a stress profile constructed for each patient. Thus, the relationships between the different stresses can be assessed and appropriate treatment advised. Inter‐rater reliability in assessing the different items comprising the stress profile has shown a high degree of correlation for all items (P