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Chapter 13: Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Stress-Related Illness

Chapter 13: Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Stress-Related Illness. Anxiety. Vague feeling of dread or apprehension Different from fear (feeling afraid or threatened by identifiable stimulus representing danger)

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Chapter 13: Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Stress-Related Illness

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  1. Chapter 13: Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Stress-Related Illness

  2. Anxiety • Vague feeling of dread or apprehension • Different from fear (feeling afraid or threatened by identifiable stimulus representing danger) • Anxiety disorders: key feature of excessive anxiety with behavioral, emotional, cognitive, physiologic responses • Stress: wear and tear of life on the body

  3. Anxiety as a Response to Stress • General adaptation syndrome (physiologic aspects of stress; identified by Selye) • Alarm reaction stage (preparation for defense) • Resistance stage (blood shunted to areas needed for defense) • Exhaustion stage (stores depleted; emotional components unresolved)

  4. Levels of Anxiety • Mild: special attention; increased sensory stimulation; motivational • Moderate: something definitely wrong; nervousness/agitation; difficulty concentrating; able to be redirected

  5. Levels of Anxiety (cont’d) • Severe: trouble thinking and reasoning; tightened muscles; increased vital signs; restless, irritable, angry • Panic: fight, flight, or freeze response; increased vital signs; dilated pupils; cognitive processes focusing on defense

  6. Working with Anxious Clients • Self-awareness of anxiety level • Assessment of person’s anxiety level • Use of short, simple, easy-to-understand sentences • Lower person’s anxiety level to moderate or mild before proceeding

  7. Working with Anxious Clients (cont’d) • Low, calm, soothing voice • Safety during panic level • Short-term use of anxiolytics

  8. Question • Tell whether the following statement is true or false: • Anxiety and fear are considered to be two different things.

  9. Answer • True • Anxiety is different from fear. Anxiety is a vague feeling of dread or apprehension. Fear is a feeling of being afraid or threatened by an identifiable stimulus representing danger.

  10. Anxiety Disorders • Agoraphobia with or without panic disorder • Panic disorder • Specific phobia; social phobia • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) • Generalized anxiety disorder • Acute stress disorder • Posttraumatic stress disorder

  11. Anxiety Disorders (cont’d) • Incidence: most common psychiatric disorders in United States • More prevalent: women; people under 45 years old • Onset, clinical course are variable

  12. Anxiety Disorders: Etiology • Biologic theories • Genetic theories • Neutochemical theories (GABA, serotonin) • Psychodynamic theories • Intrapsychic/psychoanalytic theories (Freud and defense mechanisms) • Interpersonal theories (Sullivan, Peplau) • Behavioral theory

  13. Cultural Considerations • Each culture has rules for expressing, dealing with anxiety • Asian cultures: often with somatic symptoms; koro • Hispanics: susto (high anxiety as sadness, agitation, weight loss, weakness, heart rate changes); due to supernatural spirits or bad air from dangerous places and cemeteries invading body

  14. Treatment • Combination of medications, therapy • Medications: anxiolytics; antidepressants • Cognitive-behavioral therapy • Positive reframing (turning negative messages into positive ones) • Decatastrophizing (making more realistic appraisal of situation) • Assertiveness training (learn to negotiate interpersonal situations)

  15. Question • Tell whether the following statement is true or false: • The neurotransmitter dopamine is associated with anxiety disorders.

  16. Answer • False • The neurotransmitters, GABA, and serotonin are thought to play a role in anxiety disorders.

  17. Elder Considerations • Late-life anxiety disorders • Phobias (GAD most common) • Often associated with another condition, such as depression, dementia, physical illness, or medication toxicity or withdrawal • SSRIs as treatment of choice for anxiety disorders in the elderly

  18. Mental Health Promotion • Anxiety as warning of not dealing with stress effectively

  19. Mental Health Promotion (cont’d) • Tips for managing stress: • Positive attitude; belief in self; acceptance of lack of control over certain events • Assertive communication; expression of feelings: talking, laughing, crying • Realistic goals; personally meaningful activity • Well-balanced diet, exercise, adequate rest/sleep • Use of stress management techniques

  20. Panic Disorder • Discrete episodes of panic; no stimulus for panic response • Avoidance behavior • Primary, secondary gain

  21. Panic Disorder (cont’d) • Treatment • Cognitive behavioral techniques • Deep breathing, relaxation • Benzodiazepines, SSRIs, tricyclic antidepressants, antihypertensives (clonidine, propranolol)

  22. Panic Disorder and Nursing Process Application • Assessment • Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (Box 13.1) • History • General appearance, motor behavior (automatisms) • Mood, affect (depersonalization, derealization) • Thought process, content (disorganized thoughts, loss of rational thinking)

  23. Panic Disorder and Nursing Process Application (cont’d) • Assessment (cont’d) • Sensorium, intellectual processes (confusion, disorientation) • Judgment, insight • Self-concept (self-blaming) • Roles, relationships (avoidance of others) • Physiologic, self-care concerns (sleeping, eating)

  24. Panic Disorder and Nursing Process Application (cont’d) • Nursing diagnoses • Outcome identification • Interventions • Safety, comfort • Therapeutic communication • Anxiety management • Client, family education • Evaluation

  25. Question • Which of the following would a nurse expect to assess in a client with a panic disorder? • Rational thinking • Blaming of others • Automatism • Organized thoughts

  26. Answer • Automatism • A client with panic disorder would demonstrate automatisms, irrational thinking, self-blame, and disorganized thoughts.

  27. Phobias • Intense illogical persistent fear • Categories: agoraphobia; specific phobia; social phobia (social anxiety disorder) • Categories of specific phobia: natural environment; blood-injection; situation; animal; other types

  28. Phobias (cont’d) • Treatment • Behavioral therapy: positive reframing; assertiveness training; systematic desensitization; flooding • Medications (Table 13.3)

  29. OCD • Obsessions: recurrent, persistent, intrusive, unwanted thoughts, images, impulses causing marked anxiety • Compulsions: ritualistic or repetitive behaviors or mental acts carried out continuously to neutralize anxiety

  30. OCD (cont’d) • Treatment • Medications (Table 13.3) • Behavior therapy • Exposure • Response prevention

  31. OCD and Nursing Process Application • Assessment • Yale Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Box 13.2) • History • General appearance, motor behavior (tense, anxious; embarrassment) • Mood, affect (overwhelming anxiety) • Thought process, content (obsessions out of nowhere)

  32. OCD and Nursing Process Application (cont’d) • Assessment (cont’d) • Judgment, insight (obsessions as irrational but unable to stop them) • Self-concept (powerlessness) • Roles, relationships • Physiologic, self-care considerations (sleeping problems) • Data analysis

  33. OCD and Nursing Process Application (cont’d) • Outcome identification • Intervention • Therapeutic communication • Relaxation techniques • Behavioral techniques • Daily routine completion • Client, family education • Evaluation

  34. Question • Tell whether the following statement is true or false: • A client with OCD believes that the obsessions are rational but he can’t stop them.

  35. Answer • False • A client with OCD knows that the obsessions are irrational but he can’t stop them.

  36. Other Anxiety Disorders • Generalized anxiety disorder • Chronic; longer than 6 months • Treatment: Buspirone, SSRIs • Posttraumatic stress disorder: re-experiencing traumatic event

  37. Other Anxiety Disorders (cont’d) • Acute stress disorder • More dissociative response than PTSD • Event unreal, person unreal, or forgetting some aspects of event through amnesia, emotional detachment, muddled obliviousness to environment

  38. Self-Awareness Issues • Need to understand how, why anxiety behaviors work • Nurses as vulnerable as others to stress, anxiety • Everyone occasionally suffers from stress, anxiety • Avoid trying to “fix” client’s problem • Use techniques to manage stress, anxiety in personal life

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