Have you ever had a traumatic experience and for the following 30 days you struggle with affects from it? If so, then you have acute stress disorder. Chris will call this PTSD lite when describing it because a person will go through the same symptoms and struggles as someone with PTSD.
They discuss what you should be looking out for when you think you have it and provides some steps to help you get through it.
Tune in to see Acute Stress Disorder Through a Therapist’s Eyes.
Previous Episodes:
Episode #58 – Tacit Knowledge with Dr. Ted Spickler
Episode #59 – Tacit Knowledge with Dr. Ted Spickler Part 2
Listen for the following takeaways from the Show:
- Response from Chris to a comment from Episode 60 discussing problem solving.
- Review Tacit Knowledge from episode 58 and 59. Discussed how the brain will take in so much information that you are not even aware of.
- Chris provides the DSM definition of Acute Stress Disorder.
- The symptoms and problems are the same as PTSD but they subside within 30 days of onset. PTSD is when they continue to occur after that 30 day window.
- Effects of concussions and NFL players – The get exposed to twice the amount of force required to concuss the brain.
- Do Traumatic events cause the came proteins and chemicals created by concussions?
- Those events will cause emotional scarring.
- But how do you handle to scars if you do not know that you have them.
- Emotional Concussions from alcoholic, dysfunctional family systems.
- Even if you are trained and experienced, a traumatic event can still cause anxiety.
- With the creation of proteins, adrenaline, and cortisol, you brain tacitly remembers and reacts to those situations.
- Chronic occurrences compound the effects of the trauma.
- You have the first acknowledge that there was an affect on you.
- Go through the story of what happened to help deal with the situation.
- Constructivism – the person in therapy in the agent of change.
- Be organizing and making sense of the world by creating meaning out of the events.
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