Which term best describes a disorder in which victims of traumatic events experience the original event in the form of dreams or flashbacks?

• A. PTSD
• B. Hallucinations
• C. Anxiety
• D. Anorexia

Answer: (A)

Experiencing the original event as dreams or flashbacks signals re-experiencing symptoms after trauma. In PTSD, people repeatedly relive the trauma through intrusive memories, distressing dreams, and flashbacks, often with avoidance of reminders and heightened arousal, after exposure to a life-threatening or severely distressing event. This pattern tends to persist and impair daily functioning. While anxiety describes general worry, and hallucinations are sensory experiences without real stimuli (common in psychosis), and anorexia is an eating disorder, none of these specifically encapsulate the trauma-related re-experiencing that defines PTSD. So the term that fits best is PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).