PSY344H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychoeducation, Columbine High School Massacre, Sympathetic Nervous System
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Hypertension, digestive issues, headaches, back paints, cardiovascular diseases; so we know that there is a connection; people diagnosed with ptsd have a doubled risk of suffering from these physical health issues; We know from literature that stress levels affect performance in. This shows an actual police scenario with actors; sometimes they think someone holding camera was actually holding a weapon. Imagine that you need to make a decision in a very brief period of time (seconds) and you have an extreme amount of stress from your surroundings; in this case, survival skills come to the surface. And you need to have a fight or flight response; When you are under extreme stress, sometimes you can freeze and you don"t even know what is going on in your surroundings. You have extreme stress and automated thinking; Under this extreme arousal, many people actually get tunnel vision; your vision is narrowed down and many of your other senses also get affected;
