HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Combat Stress Reaction
3 Jan 2018
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Introduction: historically, both ocd and ptsd belonged to anxiety disorders, sharing core feature (anxious distress), dsm- 5 places each in new chapters. Ptsd and ocd often result from traumatic events or episodes. Post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd: first used to be called "shell shock", then "combat fatigue" after ww2. This is the only thing in dsm that we can find the cause. (person needs to experience traumatic event), Cannot occur simply due to exposure via tv, have to directly experience the event, experience something that is threatening to your life. Experiencing something distressing is not the same as trauma: to be diagnosed, a person or a loved one must have been exposed to a traumatic event, involving actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violation. Ptsd- re-experiencing: a person must feel as if the event is recurring, flashbacks, reliving experience, hallucinations, repetitive play, recurrent dreams, flashbacks: dissociative (person disconnected from themselves in some way, mind is elsewhere)
