Symptoms
Causes (T/F)
Treatment
Risk Factors
Wild Card
100

This is when a patient is constantly on edge, and has trouble focusing.

What is anxiety?

100
A miscarriage can cause PTSD.
What is true?
100
A type of therapy that allows the patient to re-live the experience that caused their PTSD. The exposure starts as least stressful to more traumatic, until the patient can re-experience the trauma with minimal amounts of stress.
What is exposure therapy?
100
A variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection.
What is a risk factor?
100
True or false, PTSD can be passed down by genes.
What is false? PTSD is a mental disorder, and is caused by a trauma. It can NOT be passed down to children.
200
A deeply distressing or disturbing experience.
What is a trauma?
200
Being in a war can cause PTSD.
What is true.
200
The patient wears these to undergo exposure therapy in a virtual world.
What are virtual gaming goggles.
200
True or false, a PTSD diagnosed parent may raise their child differently or extremely protectively.
What is true. A patient who has seen a fatal car crash for example, may be extremely reluctant to let their child ride a car or even prohibit them to receive a driver's license.
200
A state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances.
What is stress?
300
A sudden and disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past, typically as the result of a psychological trauma.
What is a flashback?
300
Watching many horror films in a row can cause PTSD.
What is false.
300
True or false, the patient undergoes therapy in a video-game like format to lower the amount of stress.
What is true?
300
True or false, PTSD can affect how a person acts or feels about certain topics relating to their trauma.
What is true.
300
What does PTSD stand for?
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
400
The tendency to defend is stronger than the tendency to attack.
What is an avoidance behavior?
400
Drinking too much alcohol can make the brain have PTSD-like affects.
What is false.
400
A treatment meant to relieve or heal a disorder.
What is therapy?
400
True or false, patients with PTSD cannot get married.
What is false.
400
PTSD can be prevented.
What is false.
500
True or false; A patient suffering from PTSD may react to common sounds as if they were something they had heard during their trauma. For example, a PTSD diagnosed soldier hearing a can of soda opening may feel as if it were the grenade that injured him.
What is true?
500
Taking drugs can cause PTSD-like symptoms.
What is false.
500
True or false, there is a cure for PTSD that is permanent?
What is true?
500
True or false, a patient with PTSD may react differently to common sounds or ongoings that remind them of their trauma.
What is true?
500
True or false, PTSD is more prominent in men than women.
What is false. Women are more likely than men to develop PTSD. About 10% of women develop PTSD sometime in their lives compared with 5% of men.
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