ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
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Changing a routine to avoid certain people, places or things
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Reliving the experience
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Feeling extreme emotions from a sound, sight, or smell
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This is not an symptom of PTSD
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Detailed explanation-1: -Procrastination, passive-aggressiveness, and rumination are examples of unhelpful coping mechanisms that we may consciously or unconsciously use to avoid tackling a tough issue or facing thoughts and feelings that are uncomfortable. These behaviors are forms of avoidance coping.
Detailed explanation-2: -A human example would be a person who gets an allergic reaction from eating a certain food a few times. Eventually they learn to avoid that food and not eat it at all. This is avoidance learning.
Detailed explanation-3: -What is the evidence for avoidance symptoms in people with PTSD? Moderate to low quality evidence finds three clusters of avoidance symptoms. These are avoidance of thoughts and feelings, avoidance of activity, and avoidance of memory.