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Clinical features of post-traumatic stress disorder include:

(a) Avoidance.
True False

(b) Exaggerated startle response.
True False

(c) Flashbacks.
True False

(d) Hypervigilance.
True False

(e) Episodic dizziness.
True False

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wasem · Credits: 8592 My Scrapbook

we need more answers
i will post the correct answer in 30/3/2006

muzamel · Credits: 316 My Scrapbook

all r true except D.

psyavi · Credits: 704 My Scrapbook

a, Avoidance is true especially so from activities that cause him/her to remember the stressor.

b)Exaggerated startle response? True as there is a state of anxiety in these patients

c)Flashbacks? True. A cartecteristic feature of PTSD also a cause for the avoidence

d)Hypervigilence? True(most propably) as Increased arousal is a symptom along with anxiety it can explain hpervigilence....

e)Episodic dizziness?? False not given in book as a symptom so?

Reference Ahuja

muzamel · Credits: 316 My Scrapbook

sorry i worte incorrect .all r true except (e )

ssri · Credits: 354 My Scrapbook

ithink all except e are true

jabby · Credits: 3703 My Scrapbook

Ya all except E are true, i think.

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for me A and E are false???? am not convinced why A is true..plz explain it to me????

rhiannon_whispers · Credits: 150 My Scrapbook

A B C D -True
E - False

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