PTSD And Stress Related Disorders Dr. Schmidt

Question 1

Abnormal feeling is what

Answer 1

Feeling distressed impairing your day (deviant from others)

Question 2

Adjustment disorder

Answer 2

Somethign in life happens causing you disress (3mo-6mo)

Question 3

Adjustment disorder 2 types

Answer 3

With Anxiety and with depression

Question 4

Trauma is what

Answer 4

Extremely ovewhelming and temporarly takes up all of persons internal resources

Question 5

PTSD requirement s

Answer 5

1. Trauma exposure experienced directly, witnessed, or learned it happened to loved one, somone tells me (not media)
2. Intrusion later reliving memory
3. Avoidance sx (aviod feelings and memories round it)
4. Mood and cognitive sx (self blame, cant remember event, turn off fear and anger and happy)
5. Reactive or emotional arousal sx : angry outburst, sleep problems, self-destructive, hypervigilance (aware of envi of all times)
   = OVER 1 month

Question 6

PTSD in children

Answer 6

Timid, describe traumatic event in normal tone, can sometimes act out the traumatic event

Question 7

Tx for ptsd

Answer 7

Cbt
Prolonged exposure
Eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing

Question 8

Acute stress

Answer 8

PTSD symptoms only not for 1 mo or more