Definition: Arises as a delayed or protracted response to a stressful event or situation (of either brief or long duration) of an exceptionally threatening or catastrophic nature, which is likely to cause pervasive distress in almost anyone. Predisposing factors, such as personality traits (e.g. compulsive, asthenic) or previous history of neurotic illness, may lower the threshold for the development of the syndrome or aggravate its course, but they are neither necessary nor sufficient to explain its occurrence. Typical features include episodes of repeated reliving of the trauma in intrusive memories ( flashbacks ), dreams or nightmares, occurring against the persisting background of a sense of numbness and emotional blunting, detachment f ...[+++]rom other people, unresponsiveness to surroundings, anhedonia, and avoidance of activities and situations reminiscent of the trauma. There is usually a state of autonomic hyperarousal with hypervigilance, an enhanced startle reaction, and insomnia. Anxiety and depression are commonly associated with the above symptoms and signs, and suicidal ideation is not infrequent. The onset follows the trauma with a latency period that may range from a few weeks to months. The course is fluctuating but recovery can be expected in the majority of cases. In a small proportion of cases the condition may follow a chronic course over many years, with eventual transition to an enduring personality change (F62.0). | Traumatic neurosis

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Definition: Hypersomnia is defined as a condition of either excessive daytime sleepiness and sleep attacks (not accounted for by an inadequate amount of sleep) or prolonged transition to the fully aroused state upon awakening. In the absence of an organic factor for the occurrence of hypersomnia, this condition is usually associated with mental disorders.

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2000 Memories: Jason and the Memory Box

Definition: A disorder characterized by a partial or complete loss of the normal integration between memories of the past, awareness of identity and immediate sensations, and control of bodily movements (see F44.-), but arising as a consequence of an organic disorder.

Mr. Speaker, there are times in debates in this House that speak to times and periods in our own lives.

Hon. B. Alasdair Graham: Honourable senators, Remembrance Day, as indicated already by the Leader of the Government in the Senate and by the Honourable Senator Forrestall, whom we congratulate on this momentous anniversary of his first coming to Parliament many years ago, always triggers a host of feelings among Canadians.

Listening to the speeches made by the subcommittee members yesterday brought back many memories of the Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, of which I was a member.

I told him about a constituent of mine who came to my office because of what they call memory retrieval technique. It has been used by some psychiatrists and therapists to try to get to old memories that have been buried deep in the subconscious and to try to bring them up to see if they need to be examined in the light of current facts (1730) They brought up the case of a child of theirs who claimed that 30 or 40 years previously had been sexually assaulted.