Day 4: Obsessive Compulsive, Dissociative and Trauma Related Disorders

Dissociative Disorders

Where a person becomes disconnected fromt their conciousness, thoughts, memories, and identity. Disrupting daily life.

Anything that reminds a person of past trauma can trigger a dissociative episode

Dissociation

Dssociative amnesia

Causes a person to forget important facrs or information about themselves and their history.

• often relates to a traumatic event in the past.

Fugue

Fugue: the nature of disociateive fugue in that involves an element of traveling or wondering away from one's present situation.

• a form of reversible amnesia

• involves wandering or unplanned travel

• a person establishes a new identiy in a new location

also relates to traumatic events

Dissocatve dentity Dsorder

AKA multiple personality disorder

• Switching between multiple identities.

• Presence of two or more distinct identities

• persistent gaps in memory of personal identities

• Persistent gaps in memory of personal information, daily activities, and past traumas.

• Significant distress and impaired functioning

• Disturbance.

Trauma

A type of distressing event or experience that can have an impact on a persons ability to cope and fucntion.

• can result in physical, psychological, and emotional

• NOT ALL PEOPLE WILL DEVELOP PTSD

Trauma and Stressor related dsorders

charcterized by exposure to a stressful or psychologically distressing event.

• could involve

• hypervigilence

• social anxiety

• insomnia

• emotional detachment

• hostility

Possible causes: Possible causes of trauma and stressor-related disorders involve the experience of trauma or stress.

Distress

Dibilitating stress

• Overwhelmed or about qualitative nature of a stressor

• Hypertension, fatigue, suppressed immune

Hypervigilance

People who are on guard and prone to overreaction

• intense and obsessive awareness of their surroundings, frequently scanning for threats and escape routes.

• Undermines quality of life.

Flashbacks

Posttraumatc Stress disorder (PTSD)

When people experience a variety of symptoms follwoing exposure to a traumatic event. These my include flashbacks nightmares, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, negative thoughts and beliefs.

Causes: any traumatic even

Obsessive- compulsive disorder

Symptoms:

• Characterized by obsessions and that interfere with daily life.

• severe anxiety

• Having “rituals”

• fear of germs

Obsessions

Current, persistent, intrusive, and unwnted thoughts, images or urges that cause anxiety or distress.

• thoughts or images that wont go away (what if i becom einfected with a deadly disease)

Compulsions

Behaviors that have to be done over and over again to relieve anxiety.

• often related to obsessions

Hoarding disorder

Symptoms:

• extreme difficulty gettingr id of possesions even if they have little to no value

• could be too much and obstruct a persons day to day life.

Feeding disorders

Characterized by altered consumption or absorption of food that impairs health or psychological functioning.

• Avoidant and restrictive food intake disorder → food avoidance because of textures, lack of interest or fear of choking or vomiting.

• aren’t really to do with body image

• not really about the food, but rather a coping mechanism gone wrong

• usually a direct result of food preferences or perceived intolerances.

• ARFID: is one of the more common feeding disorders and is characterized by restriction and the exclusion of certain food groups, textures, colors, or other classifications.

Causes: medical conditions, sensory issues, anxiety, negative associations, poor feeding habits, food scarcity, learned avoidance,

Eating disorders

Symptoms:

• characterized by altered consumption or absorption of food that impairs health or psychological functioning.

Possible causes: biological, genetic, social, cultural, behavioral, or cognitive sources, body images

Anorexia Nervosa

Symptoms:

Restricting the amount of food or calories consumed. May feel preocupied with thoughts of restricting types of food.

• disordered view of their body and feel overweight when even though they are dangerously underweight.

• Fear of gaining weight

• fine hair, dry hair and nails.

Possible causes: biological, genetic, social, cultural, behavioral, or cognitive sources.

Bullimia nervosa

Consuming large amounts of food, follwoed by purging the food through vomiting or the use of laxatives.

• binging on large amounts of food

• feeling the need to purge after a large meal or snack

• forcing yourself to vomit.