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

Symptoms:

• chaarcterized by altered consumption or absorption of food that impairs helth or psychological finctioning.

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

Eating disorders

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

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

Anorexia Nervosa

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.

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.