8.5 Flashcards
Describe what can cause trauma and stress related disorders
Traumatic events or extremely stressful situations that either an individual experienced first hand or may have seen
PTSD
Symptoms can last for over a month to years. Individuals with PTSD will often relive the traumatic event, through flashbacks or dreams. Individuals will exhibit certain avoidance behaviors for specific places, events, or people. Symptoms include mood changes, loss of interest in hobbies, possible amnesia, emotional outbursts trouble sleeping, and heightenedresponses
Acute stress disorder
Intense stress that an individual experiences for a short amount of time, traditionally less than a month, after the traumatic event
Somatic symptom disorder
A condition in which a person will experience symptoms such as pain, dizziness, or vomiting that impact their daily function. But there is no medical condition to explain the symptoms
Illness anxiety disorder
Formerly known as hypochondriasis. This is when a person will experience anxiety about their health and will interpret any small disturbance as a serious disease
Conversion disorder
A person experiences symptoms that they cannot control. On the surface it appears that they have a physical disorder, however, it is actually psychological
What are dissociative disorder
These are rare and are some of the most complex disorders. Individuals with Dissociative disorder have their conscious awareness disrupted and do not integrate normally with their memories or perception of their surroundings
What three different disorders that fall under dissociative disorder?
1) Dissociative identity disorder2) Dissociative amnesia 3) Depersonalization disorder
Describe dissociative identity disorder.
This is when a person has at least two identities that control a person’s behavior at different times
Explain what may cause a dissociative identity disorder
It is believed to be caused by severe trauma that causes the person to dissociate or split away as a protection method
dissociatve amnesia
This is when a person forgets vital information, much more than can be explained by normal forgetfulness. The information is normally traumatic or stressful
When does depersonalization disorder occur?
Depersonalization disorder occurs when a person repeatedly has the feeling that they are observing themselves from the outside
Explain what it means to experience a depersonalization episode and derealization episode
A depersonalization episode is when you feel detached from your own mind and body. While a derealization episode is when you feel like the world around you is not real
