PSYCH 3F03 Lecture Notes - Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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According to evolutionary definition, we are much less certain about what is and that warrants treatment isn"t a disorder: depression, anxiety, ptsd, anorexia, substance abuse, schizophrenia seems like it is a disorder but we don"t know what the adaptation is that is malfunctioning. Therefore, the issue is not whether the treat; it is how best to treat: if normally functioning adaptation (cid:224) treat the cause that triggered it (e. g. infection, if true instance of disorder (cid:224) suppress harmful symptoms (eg. genetic causality of fever) Why should the fact that the sample is composed of 18 24 year olds give us reason to be suspicious of the disorder label: from the reading , the body is full of adaptations, they all break down at some point, and we all die because of these breakdowns, this happens though, as we get older, adaptation malfunctioning is low during reproductive years (young years)
