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Abnormal Psychological Disorders

Abnormal Psychological Disorders. Anxiety. Anxiety Disorders. Anxiety – general state of dread or uneasiness in response to imagined danger Most common type of mental illness in US Affects 40 million Americans annually Generalized Anxiety Disorder – continuous or generalized anxiety

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Abnormal Psychological Disorders

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  1. Abnormal Psychological Disorders Anxiety

  2. Anxiety Disorders • Anxiety – general state of dread or uneasiness in response to imagined danger • Most common type of mental illness in US • Affects 40 million Americans annually • Generalized Anxiety Disorder – continuous or generalized anxiety • Phobic Disorder • Specific phobia – almost anything • Social phobia – speaking in public • Agoraphobia – fear of public place

  3. Anxiety Disorders • a group of conditions where the primary symptoms are anxiety or defenses against anxiety. • the patient fears something awful willhappen to them. • They are in a state of intense apprehension, uneasiness, uncertainty, or fear.

  4. Generalized Anxiety DisorderGAD • An anxiety disorder in which a person is continuously tense, apprehensive and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal. • The patient is constantly tense and worried, feels inadequate, is oversensitive, can’t concentrate and suffers from insomnia.

  5. Anxiety Disorders • Phobia • Panic Disorder • OCD (As Good As it Gets, Matchstick Men) • Compulsions – repeating behaviors • Obsessions – uncontrollable thoughts • PTSD (Brothers, Reign Over Me) • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder • Can be caused by any traumatic event (not just war)

  6. Panic Disorder • An anxiety disorder marked by a minutes-long episode of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking and other frightening sensations.

  7. Obsessive-compulsive disorder • Persistent unwanted thoughts (obsessions) cause someone to feel the need (compulsion) to engage in a particular action. • Obsession about dirt and germs may lead to compulsive hand washing.

  8. Post-traumatic Stress Disordera.k.a. PTSD • Flashbacks or nightmares following a person’s involvement in or observation of an extremely stressful event. • Memories of the even cause anxiety.

  9. Phobias • A person experiences sudden episodes of intense dread. • Must be an irrational fear. • Phobia List

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