Vocabulary: Flashbacks are dissociative reactions where individuals feel as if the traumatic event is recurring in the present moment.

Highlight: During traumatic events, memory processing changes significantly, focusing intensely on the primary threat while creating fragmented sensory memories.

Example: Someone might avoid certain locations, people, or activities that remind them of the traumatic event, demonstrating avoidance symptoms.

Definition: Complex PTSD involves additional symptoms beyond standard PTSD, typically resulting from prolonged or repetitive trauma exposure.

Highlight: Arousal symptoms include irritability, reckless behavior, hypervigilance, and sleep disturbances.

Quote: "Not added to DSM because vast majority of people with CPTSD meet criteria for PTSD"

Highlight: Lifetime prevalence of PTSD in the US is 6.8%, with higher rates among Black Americans.

Example: Women are more frequently diagnosed with PTSD despite men experiencing more potentially traumatic events, possibly due to different types of trauma exposure.

Definition: The diathesis-stress model suggests that PTSD results from the interaction between individual vulnerability and traumatic experiences.

Definition: The diathesis-stress model suggests that PTSD results from the interaction between individual vulnerability and traumatic experiences.

Highlight: PTSD rates vary significantly across racial and ethnic groups, with Black Americans showing higher prevalence rates.

Example: Women are more commonly diagnosed with PTSD despite men experiencing more potentially traumatic events, partly due to differences in trauma types and age of exposure.

Definition: PTSD requires exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence, either through direct experience, witnessing, or learning about it happening to close ones.

Highlight: Intrusion symptoms manifest as involuntary distressing memories, dreams, flashbacks, and psychological distress when exposed to trauma-related cues.

Example: A person might experience recurring nightmares about the traumatic event or have intense anxiety when encountering situations reminiscent of the trauma.