PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Startle Response, Derealization

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Allison Jane Ouimet

Document Summary

Recurrent hair pulling, resulting in hair loss. They don"t think they hate their hair so they pull, they may do it bc of stress. Recurrent skin picking, resulting in skin lesions. There needs to be trauma that has to t into a certain type. Needs to be a number of symptoms: Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence in 1 or more of the following: Witnessing the event in person as it occurred to others. Learning that the traumatic event(s) occurred to a close family member/friend. for actual/threatened death: violent or accidental. Experiencing repeated or extreme exposure to aversive details of the traumatic events. This was added bc of people like therapists, lawyers who had to listen to these experiences or details over and over. One or more of the following intrusion symptoms: Think of these as safety things when your brain is in distress it"ll go to this.