As I noted about a decade ago when I first tackled âhighfalutin,â the origin of the word is uncertain. The reader who sent in that question in 1999 had heard that âhighfalutinâ originally denoted a fine grade of flour used to make a superior sort of bread.
DSM-5 Category: Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders. Introduction. The category of âTrauma and Stressor-related Disordersâ is a new rubric for the variously-named forms of post-traumatic stress disorder, shell shock, combat neurosis and the like.
It is very rare, and usually resolves over time (although memory of the fugue episode itself may remain lost), often helped by therapy. Situation-specific amnesia is a type of psychogenic amnesia that occurs as a result of a severely stressful event, as part of post-traumatic stress disorder.