Health Sciences 4091A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, World War I, Iatrogenesis
11 Dec 2016
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Regression is a common response to over burden. Mental illness is a normal response to extraordinary experiences. (orrific and shocking experiences that challenge people"s basic sense of. Uproot fundamental assumptions regarding personal safety, mortality, and a values and reality just world. Such disturbing events lead to the difficult and lengthy challenge of reconstructing meaning systems to suit new circumstances: trauma response. Extreme distress and extended grappling with the significance and consequences of such events are expectable results of traumas as one engages in such meaning reconstruction: creating a new relationship with your current reality. We are clearly not designed to leave behind traumatic memories forever. Arises as a consequence of some horrific experience. The horrific experience is required for the diagnosis to be applies. So what qualifies as trauma: subjective to the individual. The dx of ptsd is particular and unique to responses to traumatic events.
