Immune To Friday

This paper explores post-traumatic stress and how it is seen as a disorder. Post-traumatic stress can manifest into post-traumatic stress disorder. According to Sareen (2014), Post-traumatic stress disorder is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5 as having 4 core features that are as follows. First, the person must witness or experience a stressful event. Secondly, the person or persons would re-experience symptoms of the event that include nightmares and/or flashbacks. The person or persons would also have hyper arousal symptoms, such as concentrations problems, irritability, and sleep disturbance. The final core feature dictates

The survivors essentially work better in these ‘crisis modes’ and it helps to mask the underlining issues of what they have suppressed. Most health issues that have been apparent in these situations have been sexual, eating, anxiety, and personality disorders, as well as issues with depression and suicidal behavior among just a few to name. (Kezelman, 2014) This article believes that you have to understand what happened and how it relates to the survivor in order for one to lead a normal life. If a survivor negates the abuse and the issues that they typically higher chance of having a mental issues and are more likely to commit crimes as juveniles and adults.

Even though our bodies are in one place, our minds may be in another. In Martha Stout’s essay “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday,” the author introduces us to the idea of dissociation. Dissociation is when one’s mind is away from the body and he or she does not know what is going on in the physical world. Those that have traumatic histories may experience this. But because of dissociation, victims may not know if they had a traumatic past because a memory of it never really formed. Stout also finds that individuals may use dissociation as a way to protect themselves from trauma. Sometimes the slightest and smallest piece of a traumatic memory may bring into play the dissociation. When these individuals experience dissociation

Post-traumatic disorder (PTSD) is one of the leading mental issues in the world right now. It includes introduction to injury including passing or the danger of death, genuine damage, or sexual brutality. Something is traumatic when it is exceptionally startling, overpowering and causes a considerable measure of pain. Injury is regularly sudden, and numerous individuals say that they felt feeble to stop or change the occasion. Traumatic occasions might incorporate wrongdoings, common fiascos, mishaps, war or strife, or different dangers to life. It could be an occasion or circumstance that one encounters or something that transpires, including friends and family. The post-traumatic stress is not subject to any definite experience a priori,

It has been founded that forms both emotional trauma and disorders such as PTSD have a quite effect on human’s

The psychological trauma experienced by Larry and Karen (n.d.) in the sudden, unexpected death of their one-year-old son is enough to threaten their sense of security, make them feel vulnerable to dangers in life and can cause them to lose all sense of direction in their life. Karen experienced a dissociative disorder known as dissociative amnesia (APA, 1994). The sudden onset of her son’s death was an extremely traumatic event that caused her to experience a temporary amnesia of the events of the previous week including the death of her son. The extent of the emotional trauma results in temporary impairment but it can be

Foa and her colleagues (2011) created prolonged Exposure (PE) for clients trying to overcome with PTSD that is based on the emotional processing therapy (Foa, 2011). PE treatment plan includes collecting of information associated to both the traumatic experience and the trauma survivor's responses to it, the teaching of breathing retraining techniques, education, the re-experiencing of the trauma in imagination, and in vivo exposure (Foa, 2011). When compared with CPT, PE is a 10-session treatment (60-90 minutes) that is centered on both in-vivo and imaginal exposure to the trauma memory and ensuing adaptation. PE reports that repetitive stimulation of the trauma memory allows the clients to integrate new, counteractive information about themself and their world. Additionally, homework assignments in PE allow the client to face safe situations, which were formerly resolute to be threatening based upon inaccurate post-traumatic beliefs (Foa,

In chapter 15 of Exploring Psychology, the author discuss the basics of psychological disorders. Within this assignment, the psychological disorder of my choosing is Dissociative Identity Disorder. The commonality of the disorder is rare. Although we’ve disassociated ourselves in some form or the other with our ability to daydream, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is more severe and is usually linked to trauma. Formerly the disorder was known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). Individuals who suffer from this disorder usually have more than one aspect of themselves or personalities, whom he or she is completely unaware of. Sufferers of the disorder have to deal with a variety of symptoms such as memory loss, depression, anxiety, hallucinations, black-outs, impulsiveness, and perception of being detached from the self. The severity of the trauma is usually extreme, repetitive, and long-term. The individual may have an extensive history of physical, emotional, and/or sexual abuse.

Unfortunately, many people find themselves as victims of bygone eras. People who have experienced traumatic events often exhibit symptoms of mental damaged, long after the catalyst is removed.Therefore, many of the victims find solace in differing coping mechanisms. Others drink themselves to oblivion, some gamble their fortunes away and a select few lose a desire to communicate.

Introduction: Had anybody ever met an actor, or a producer, or bodyguard before? Quite frankly, at the age of thirty-six a few young African American women as myself have a pleasure to meet someone new without knowing that day will ever be on September 17th, 2012. My friend, Scott Cummings died two years later. Many people wants to know who is Scott Cummings. Cummings plays a role as Alex in film movie "The Girl" and this movie was released in Philadelphia, October 2010. However, but this one particular actor that goes by Jason who plays in horror movie "Friday the 13th, Ari Lehman play a role in this

Friday nights are made for sitting in the stands and cheering on the football team. However, when I sit in the stands I keep seeing this same kid being favored by the coach. Now how is that fair to the rest of the players.

The occurrence of a traumatic event does not produce the negative reactions for most people, but rather the amount of exposure to the event (MacGeorge et al., 2007). The higher the amount of exposure the more severe the distress and reactions. Those who had little exposure to the event can still experience negative outcomes and adverse effects on their health. Stress can be healthy to us as it allows us to focus on the matter at hand and get work done. However, stress can also be damaging to our physical and mental health. Prolonged stress can produce lasting emotions that surpass the original source. Depression and anxiety can even occur to those with a low exposure because of the stress associated with the events. Physical health can also be damaged from the symptoms of stress in a long-term environment. Those who had a direct exposure of the attacks more commonly experienced disorders such as PTSD and clinical depression. (MacGeorge et al., 2007). Those who had a low exposure had a higher sense of closure, the feeling that a bad experience has ended and a normal life can be lived again. This high closure resulted in higher psychological well-being, and those who had a lower closure were found to have psychological distress (Adler & Poulin, 2009). People who had a higher closure to the events of 9/11 were able to put aside the adverse impact and move on with their lives. They were able to put away the stress and worry, while those who had a low closure clung to the events and held longingly on to the

In Martha Stout’s essay “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday”, she discusses how a person who has suffered a traumatic experience is most likely to dissociate their individual self from that situation and block it from their mind completely. This form of a solution allows the person to forget the experience and not feel the pain. In “Immune to Reality” Daniel Gilbert describes how every human being contains a psychological immune system, which works to shield us from horrible experiences that threaten our happiness. When experiencing a traumatic event, the psychological immune system responds by “cooking up the facts”, meaning taking the facts of the situation and turning the negative aspects of it into positive views. At first

Trauma means to tolerate and experience a horrific event, where it is a place for human beings come face to face with their vulnerability. When life bombards us with its surprises, such as war, separation, illness and loss of loved ones. Trauma is an emotional response to a dreadful event like war, rape, molestation, sexually and physically abuse, serious accident. Trauma could result in serious long-term effects on individual’s well-being. After the event, the individuals will be in a state of shock and denial because our brain, mind and body are all connected and unpredictable emotions arise. It overwhelms an individual and put in a state of rage, helplessness and despair. The results such as flashbacks, strained relationships set up physical

PTSD is a form of dissociation and involves two distinct parts that effect the consciousness and behavior of an adolescent. “One is numb and avoidant of traumatic memories, but more or less functional in daily life, and another is enmeshed in traumatic memories” (Diseth 83). These elements of dissociation cause attachment and adaptive disorders that will perpetrate further harm to the adolescent. Trauma is related to other behaviors in adolescents, such s numbing, social withdrawal, separation anxiety and new fears.