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... disorder:
An illness frequently occurring in persons who have experienced, witnessed, or been confronted with an event involving actual or threatened death, serious physical injury, or threat to physical or psychological integrity. The traumatizing event is outside that of ordinary human experience. Combat, Rape, Physical Assault, Disasters, Hostage Situations |
POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS
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PTSD:
Three Major Elements 1. ... trauma through dreams or recurrent intrusive thoughts 2. Emotional ..., detachment, alienation from their life pre-trauma 3. Autonomic ...: Exaggerated startle, chronic anxiety, irritability |
Re-experiencing
numbing hyper-arousal |
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... – “there are no words for the feelings or experience that I’ve had”
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Alexithymia
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PTSD:
Common Associated Features -Unexpected reliving of the experience (...) including perceptual distortion -Intense psychological distress upon exposure to any circumstance similar to event -Increasing pattern of avoidance at times leading to extreme ... -Intermittent ... or impaired recall of antecedents, trauma itself, aftermath Constricted Affect, Unrelenting ... (after the event, they never feel good) , ... (inability to experience pleasure), Alexithymia Sense of forshortened or no future |
flashbacks
isolation amnesia Dysphoria Anhedonia |
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-bargaining stage -“if only I had done this/that” |
pathological grief
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