Question

Ramon sees a therapist because he is reliving a traumatic experience and has been trying to avoid reminders of it. The onset of his problem occurred three weeks ago, after he was brutally assaulted and robbed. The therapist would most likely diagnose Ramon with which disorder?

Answer 1

Acute stress disorder

Step-by-step explanation:

This is a combined series of unpleasant reactions manifested by an individual after an exposure to, or experienced of a traumatic events(death, accidents,...).It is usually characterised with manifestation of dissociating symptoms about 3 days after the experience and last for a month.

Apathy sets in, lack of emotional attributes in ideal activities, failure to achieved success in daily life tasks, detachments,difficulty in concentration, in planning, difficulty at sleeping, irritability,failure to recollect details of the traumatic events are few of the symptoms manifested.

These manifestations were as a results of ability of the subjects to reflects on the traumatic effects through dreams, thoughts, illusion or disturbances when exposed to similar events or reminded of the traumatic events etc.

Generally withdrawal of the subject from the traumatic situation, an appeal to the subject to narrate the events and understand the reaction to it, application of some medications, and family support are ways of alleviating and correcting this disorder.