Emotional communication deficits can be a result of

Emotional communication deficits can be a result of

• A. Stroke
• B. Post-traumatic stress disorder
• C. Hearing loss
• D. Expressive aphasia

Answer: (B)

Emotional communication deficits happen when someone has trouble expressing or interpreting feelings in interactions. Post-traumatic stress disorder disrupts how emotions are processed and regulated. A person with PTSD may feel emotionally numb, become irritable or abrupt, or withdraw from others, which makes it hard to share feelings or accurately read others’ emotions. This directly affects how they communicate emotionally with people around them. Other options describe different kinds of problems: stroke can affect language or cognitive abilities that alter communication; hearing loss mainly reduces access to spoken information; expressive aphasia primarily impairs producing speech. While those can affect communication in various ways, PTSD most directly explains difficulties with expressing and understanding emotions during social interaction.

Emotional communication deficits happen when someone has trouble expressing or interpreting feelings in interactions. Post-traumatic stress disorder disrupts how emotions are processed and regulated. A person with PTSD may feel emotionally numb, become irritable or abrupt, or withdraw from others, which makes it hard to share feelings or accurately read others’ emotions. This directly affects how they communicate emotionally with people around them. Other options describe different kinds of problems: stroke can affect language or cognitive abilities that alter communication; hearing loss mainly reduces access to spoken information; expressive aphasia primarily impairs producing speech. While those can affect communication in various ways, PTSD most directly explains difficulties with expressing and understanding emotions during social interaction.