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Leslie is a bright and attractive 22-year-old college student who…
Leslie is a bright and attractive 22-year-old college student who is majoring in biology with plans to attend medical school in about a year. She lives in an apartment near campus, has many friends and a roommate, and is dating a young man from school with whom he has developed a very good relationship.
Last semester while her roommate was out of town, a fire alarm in Leslie’s apartment building was triggered by someone’s bad cooking experience, and all the residents had to evacuate the building at about 11:00pm. Leslie wandered around the parking lot, chatting with various residents while they waited to be allowed to go back inside. Just before she went back inside, a young man approached her and chatted with her for several minutes. She believed he might be about to ask her out for a date, and she was about to tell him she already had a boyfriend when the police officers told everyone they could enter return to their apartments. She returned alone to her bedroom, and began to get dressed for bed. When she went back to the kitchen to turn off the lights, she heard a noise at the door and, not thinking about how late it was, she opened the door to see what it was. The man from the parking lot then pushed his way into her apartment, struck her repeatedly, and sexually assaulted her. She eventually got away from him by telling him she had to go to the bathroom. Once inside, she managed to lock the bathroom door and use her cell phone to call 911. She screamed out her bathroom window for help, which caused her attacker to run from the building. Thankfully, some individuals were still outside and were able to get a license plate number from the attacker’s car as he sped out of the parking lot.
It has now been four months since Leslie was attacked, and she reported to the campus counseling clinic and stated she has been unable to “get over” what happened to her. She has experienced several nightmares, and reports that she thinks about the attack and/or the attacker 10 to 15 times per day, on average. She has become hypervigilant, screaming in terror when someone walks up behind her or enters a room without her knowledge. She cannot go out alone, and cannot stay home alone at night. Her boyfriend, sister, and several other friends have tried to be supportive, but she told the counselor that none of them really understand what she has been through. She is concerned because her grades are suffering due to insomnia, and she can’t concentrate on her homework or studies. On a few occasions in her psychology class, the professor has mentioned topics such as violence, crime, or rape, and on one occasion recently she ran from the classroom in tears. She reports that she doesn’t think she will ever “be the same” and she is afraid her problems are ruining her relationship with her boyfriend.
Select one:
a.Generalized Anxiety Disorder
b.Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
c.Histrionic Personality Disorder
d.Dissociative Amnesia
e.Dissociative Amnesia with Fugue
