The three main sets of PTSD symptoms are 1) re-experiencing the event, 2) hyper-arousal, and 3) [blank].
What is "avoidance?"
100
This is another commonly-used (but outdated) term for Dissociative Identity Disorder.
What is "Multiple Personality Disorder?"
100
Although people with dissociative amnesia usually have no trouble recalling general information or how to do things, they have major problems recalling this kind of information.
What is "personal information/identity"?
100
Persons with this kind of dissociative disorder tend to recover on their own, without the need for much treatment.
What is dissociative amnesia?
100
This condition is described as a "persistent, unreasonable fears of a particular object, activity, or situation."
What is a "specific phobia?"
200
This is the part of the nervous system that is hyper-activated in persons with PTSD.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
200
This term is used to refer to the different personalities that a person with DID will show at different times.
What are "alters?"
200
Psychologists believe that dissociative amnesia occurs in response to this kind of event.
What is trauma (or a highly stressful event)?
200
This kind of therapy is often useful for PTSD, in which a person is gradually brought into contact with things that remind them of their trauma.
What is exposure therapy (or systematic desensitization)?
200
Persons with this condition often are very reluctant to leave their house, due to fears of being in a public place where they might have a panic attack.
What is "agoraphobia?"
300
This disorder has almost identical symptoms to PTSD, but the symptoms usually last less than 1 month.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
300
This term is used to refer to the main, or original, personality of a person suffering from DID.
What is the "primary" or "host?"
300
This kind of amnesia occurs when a person experience a loss of memory about a specific event, AND their amnesia extends back in time to forgetting other past events.
What is "generalized" dissociative amnesia?
300
Though there is no specific medication for PTSD, we find that these types of medications are often helpful for PTSD sufferers.
What are antidepressants and/or antianxiety meds?
300
This disorder is characterized by intense fears of being in situations in which they might embarrass themselves or experience criticism from others.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
400
These kinds of events can cause PTSD in civilians, and in fact cause PTSD about 10x more often than combat trauma.
What are accidents, natural disasters, or sexual assault?
400
The psychodynamic explanation for DID suggests that new personalities are created to help the person _______ a traumatic experience.
What is forget, repress, or cope with?
400
This kind of dissociative amnesia occurs when a person suddenly leaves their home, forgets their personal identity/history, and begins a new life elsewhere.
What is a dissociative fugue?
400
This is an often difficult emotion to treat for persons with PTSD, as they struggle with the knowledge that they might have lived through a traumatic event, when others did not.
What is "survivor guilt?"
400
This condition is characterized by extreme physical symptoms (shortness of breath, racing heart, nausea, chest pain, dizziness), when there is NO real threat present.
What is a panic attack? (a major part of panic disorder)
500
About [this] percent of veterans of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan wars report experiencing PTSD symptoms.
What is 20-30%?
500
In persons with DID, this is the most common way that alters relate with each other -- where some alters are aware of other alters, but the awareness is not mutual.
What is a "one-way amnesic" relationship?
500
This is the most common form of dissociative amnesia -- in which the person loses all memory of events that occur during a specific and limited time period.
What is "localized" dissociative amnesia?
500
Treatment for this Dissociative Disorder is often long and difficult, requiring extensive psychotherapy to help the person recover lost memories and re-integrate their personality.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
500
Persons with this condition are often treated with "Exposure and Response Prevention," in which they are exposed to something that makes them anxious AND kept from performing a specific behavior they would normally use to cope with the anxiety.