POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Startle Response, Hypervigilance
29 Oct 2017
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Rape most common type of trauma (creamer et al. , 2001) Exposure to a traumatic event that involves actual or threatened death or injury. Anxiety, avoidance of stimuli associated with trauma, emotional numbing. Other signs of mood and cognitive changes e. g. , refuse to walk on street where rape occurred. Memory loss, negative thoughts and emotions, self-blame, blaming others, withdrawal. Irritability, aggressiveness, recklessness or self-destructiveness, insomnia, difficulty concentrating, hypervigilance, exaggerated startle response. Wwii pows 60% were symptomatic 40 years after confinement. Threatening cues activate fear and anxiety areas (amygdala) Hypnotized students prompted to reveal alters did so. A few clinicians diagnose the majority of did cases. Memorize words as one identity can still recall them as alternate identity although no conscious recollection. Did results from severe psychological and/or sexual abuse in childhood. Did is a form or role-play in suggestible individuals. Occurs in response to prompting by therapists or media.
