Anxiety Disorder and PTSD

It's not the goal of psychiatric interview to have a patient come in and unpack all of their years of horrific trauma on you that is not helpful to the patient it can be harmful to the patient. So we need to set up these questions so you might say something like you know this question is intentionally broad and it's really personal and it can be really difficult to talk about but I just need to ask you because depending on your answer it will kind of the it'll inform our treatment plan. The other piece of that really valid if a patient does share then when you are going to the treatment plan coming back to that and validating hey this is where that you know don't bring up