Questions tagged [ptsd]
For questions about post-traumatic stress disorder, its diagnosis, its treatment, and its etiology
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Paper on PTSD and trauma
I'm looking for a paper on PTSD research.
Last year, 2023, I found this paper I'm having trouble finding today. I believe the main author had a masculine name. The paper was a survey of various ...
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Changes to the brain regions due to PTSD
I mentiond in my other question today (Changes to the amygdala due to PTSD) that the one thing I have often heard regarding changes in the brain due to trauma and PTSD is that the amygdala is enlarged ...
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Changes to the amygdala due to PTSD
The one thing I have often heard regarding changes in the brain due to trauma and PTSD is that the amygdala is enlarged (e.g. Kuo et al, 2012). This is understandable considering the amygdala is ...
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Horror Movies, PTSD and The Mere-Exposure Effect
Some people say that they get PTSD from horror movies, yet there are some researches done that claim that horror movies help fight against stress and even PTSD.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...
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When and how did the concept of psychological trauma begin to be extended and expanded to include more mundane and less severe experiences?
I'm in my first semester studying mental health counseling at a master's level and I have heard several of my professors make comments to the effect that over the past 20-30 years they have seen the ...
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Why does a person's mind keep imagining situations with problems that do not exist and continue solving those problems in the imagination?
Why does a person's mind keep imagining situations with problems that do not exist and continue solving those problems in the imagination?
This keeps the person generally in absent-mindedness and ...
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PTSD is an internalising disorder or mixed?
I am a bit confused. In an open access article (Caspi, et al. 2020), is the following — under Methods: Assessing Psychopathology (emphasis mine):
[...] externalizing disorders (ie, attention-deficit/...
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Is there a neurological difference between someone experiencing a "normal" trauma response, and someone with PTSD? Or are they on the same continuum?
I've been reading Dr. Bessel van der Kolk's book The Body Keeps the Score. Dr. Van der Kolk describes how, in people with PTSD, the brain actually undergoes changes in response to trauma. Their ...
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Why did humans evolve to be traumatizable?
Why did humans evolve to be traumatizable, instead of being more resilient and treating trauma in a detached manner? Don't symptoms of trauma reduce a person's biological fitness? Is PTSD an ...
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Resources for adults supporting a partner with childhood sexual trauma
This may be not the appropriate community, but I am looking for resources - books or articles - about how to improve the affective support towards an adult who suffered childhood sexual abuse.
I am ...
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Does PTSD related courage (coping mechanisms) run parallel with bad memory in patients? [closed]
From Hayes, et al. (2012)
Some researchers have suggested that patients with PTSD have an
enhanced ability to forget information, which may explain amnesia for
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Can one use self-hypnosis or subliminal messages to wipe out selected memories from my brain (i.e. selective permanent amnesia)? [duplicate]
Is it possible to use self-hypnosis or subliminal messages to completely forget certain memories from one's brain, to cure from mental disorders as PTSD, if such memories are troubling one's life?
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So, stress (specifically PTSD) can be caused while you're young or older. But is it less likely to go away as you get older?
I know PTSD can occur with many people. But does age influence whether or not you can get over it? For example, someone who was a vet in Vietnam compared to someone who went through a robbery as a kid....
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Evidence for EFT (Emotional Freedom technique) for PTSD
What is the evidence for Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT for PTSD?
Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT is a form of therapy for PTSD. EFT combines the cognitive components from CBT and exposure ...
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Is this dissociation, depersonalization, or is there a better term? [closed]
I am attempting to find the term that describes a bizarre and terrifying experience I recently had. As background: I was the subject of a severe violent assaulted at age 12, now 30 years ago. I have ...
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