AP PSYCHOLOGY

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR

INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Megan faced a traumatic experience when she was ten. She completely alienates herself from the incident to cope better with her life. Which disorder is Megan likely to be suffering from?
A
dissociative disorder
B
mood disorder
C
anxiety disorder
D
schizophrenia
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Memory loss (amnesia) of certain time periods, events, people and personal information. A sense of being detached from yourself and your emotions. A perception of the people and things around you as distorted and unreal. A blurred sense of identity.

Detailed explanation-2: -Symptoms of ASD and PTSD are similar and usually involve a combination of intrusion symptoms (eg, reexperiencing the event), avoidance symptoms, negative effects on cognition and/or mood (eg, emotional numbing), altered arousal and/or reactivity, and dissociative symptoms.

Detailed explanation-3: -The goals of treatment for dissociative disorders are to help the patient safely recall and process painful memories, develop coping skills, and, in the case of dissociative identity disorder, to integrate the different identities into one functional person.

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