Sentences with phrase «intrusive memories»

I was getting frequent intrusive memories and flashbacks of the experience, anything that reminded me of the birth triggered horrible feelings in my body.

The primary outcome of the research was the number of intrusive memories in the first week after the trauma.

These traumatic events can leave a person with painful overwhelming emotions, depression, insomnia, nightmares, frightening intrusive memories (or flashbacks), or a constant sense of danger.

Emotional memories, and particularly intrusive memories are a common feature of many psychological disorders [1].

Do you experience sadness, or intrusive memories of previous experiences?

To test the potential impact of attachments on intrusive memories directly, the current study presented participants with subliminal primes of attachment or non-attachment figures immediately prior to presentation of trauma - related and neutral stimuli.

Emily Holmes, professor of psychology at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Neuroscience, has spent many years studying the kind of preventative effects that behavioural interventions — such as a procedure including the computer game Tetris — can have on reducing intrusive memories after experimental trauma.

If you are experiencing intrusive memories, flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety, panic attacks or intense sadness or tearfulness related to the birth of your child, you may be suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

The subjects also rated the frequency and intensity of their PTSD symptoms, such as intrusive memories, avoiding people or places associated with the trauma, heightened startle response, and feelings of reexperiencing the event.

These include reliving the event through intrusive memories and dreams; emotional avoidance such as steering clear of reminders of the trauma and detaching emotionally from others; and hyperarousal that causes sufferers to startle easily, sleep poorly and be on alert for potential threats.

«It would make a huge difference to a great many people if we could create simple behavioural psychological interventions using computer games to prevent post-traumatic suffering and spare them these grueling intrusive memories.

«Our hypothesis was that after a trauma, patients would have fewer intrusive memories if they got to play Tetris as part of a short behavioural intervention while waiting in the hospital Emergency Department,» says Professor Holmes.

People with the condition experience recurring, intrusive memories about the event, and may also experience emotional numbness and detachment.

Caregivers of maltreated children are seen as a source of fear which leads to a substantial disruption in the attachment system [21] Such children may also suffer intrusive memories secondary to trauma and as a result may have difficulty participating in treatment.

For the purpose of indexing intrusive memories of the stimuli presented in this experiment, we used selected items from the Intrusion subscale that directly pertained to the occurrence of unwanted memories of the target event (e.g «Pictures about it popped into mind»).

Specifically, participants with low avoidant attachment reported fewer subsequent intrusive memories when an attachment prime was presented relative to a non-attachment prime (p <.05).

There is indirect evidence of a link between attachment and emotional memories from literature on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which is characterized by intrusive memories of a traumatic event.

«This first week after trauma can be important for our patients, who have to go home, recover and look after themselves, which can be hard to do if you're getting intrusive memories of the trauma, often several a day,» says Dr Iyadurai.

Results showed that the researchers» hypothesis was right: those who had played Tetris had fewer intrusive memories of the trauma in total over the week immediately following the accident than the controls.

While most people do not develop PTSD after trauma, one of the core clinical symptoms in those who do involves recurrent and intrusive memories of the trauma (colloquially referred to as «flashbacks»).

Trauma symptoms (intrusive memories, hypervigilance, attempts to avoid triggers, numbing, etc.) are not just a psychological phenomenon.

But it can take up to 6 hours after a trauma for the brain to create these intrusive memories from these events, leaving a window of opportunity to prevent them from forming.

This suggests that the game is not just a distraction, but is interfering with the mechanisms that form the intrusive memories, she says.

If we can isolate the chemicals involved in how memories are recalled, we may someday have new drugs to help treat phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder, and intrusive memories.

The researchers also found that the intrusive memories diminished more quickly.

A single dose psychological intervention including the computer game Tetris can prevent the unpleasant, intrusive memories that develop in some people after suffering a traumatic event.

Flashbacks and unwanted, intrusive memories are known as «re-experiencing symptoms,» which can make a trauma survivor feel like they are reliving the traumatic event.

The reasons for seeking treatment may not be limited to intrusive memories of an event.

If you're experiencing flashbacks, nightmares or intrusive memories of the trauma, you may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Memories and emotions linked to the injury often pop - up in the form of dreams, flashbacks, and intrusive memories (ruminating about every detail of the event and the reason the injury occurred).

Regarding the lasting effects of sequelae of violence and other terrifying situations, the review of the literature found that the most frequently noted clinically significant symptoms reported included depression, fear, anxiety, hyper - vigilance, suicidal ideation, intrusive memories, dissociation and full blown PTSD symptoms.

This study tested the proposition that attachment activation would reduce consolidation of emotional and intrusive memories.