SOC201 Lecture Notes - Insomnia, Adobe After Effects, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
21 Nov 2013
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Stored fats and sugars are released from your body"s stores. Feelings of being driven, pressured, and tired may be experienced. Behaviour may change to compensate you may drink more coffee, smoke more, and drink more alcohol than usual. You may experience anxiety, forget things, or become ill easier. Consistent patterns in which everyone generally behaviours in stressful situations. Stage 1: alarm: fight or flight , body becomes energized, highly alert. Stage 2: resistance: while you are being threatened, you react in ways where increased energy becomes normal, you adjust to the threat. Shelly taylor (2000), fight or flight mainly a male response. A possible consequence of: rape, combat exposure, childhood neglect, physical abuse, sexual molestation, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, acts of war. Some people develop the disorder immediately after the event, others months or years later. Women are twice as likely to develop the disorder.
