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Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety Disorders. Anxiety Disorders. The patient fears something awful will happen to them. a group of conditions where the primary symptoms are anxiety or defenses against anxiety. Often called Neuroses. What is anxiety?. A state of intense apprehension, uneasiness, uncertainty, or fear.

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Anxiety Disorders

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  1. Anxiety Disorders

  2. Anxiety Disorders The patient fears something awful willhappen to them. a group of conditions where the primary symptoms are anxiety or defenses against anxiety. Often called Neuroses

  3. What is anxiety? • A state of intense apprehension, uneasiness, uncertainty, or fear. Hey…that sounds like me…right??? Differs from normal day to day anxiety in that anxiety – or effort to control it – begins to take control and dominate life

  4. Generalized Anxiety Disorder • A person is continuously tense, apprehensive and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal (cant relax) • Anxiety is not tied to any particular object or situation • Anxiety has a “free-floating” quality The patient is constantly tense and worried, feels inadequate, is oversensitive, can’t concentrate and may suffer from insomnia. - can lead to the more serious panic disorder

  5. Panic Disorder • sudden bouts of intense unexplained terror • Panic attacks • episodes of intense dread, chest pain, choking and other frightening sensations • People may think they are “going crazy” • More than three in six months is cause for alarm Can cause secondary disorders, such as agoraphobia or social phobias.

  6. Phobias • Irrational or excessive fears of particular objects or situations • People recognize that fears are irrational, but still avoid situations or objects • Three types • Social phobia, specific phobia, and agoraphobia

  7. The Phobia List Link

  8. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder • characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or repetitive actions (compulsions). • Becomes OCD when it takes control of our lives

  9. Common Examples of OCD

  10. Explanations for Anxiety Disorders • Behavioral • You Learn them through conditioning, observational learning, and reinforcement • Evolution • fear based on earlier dangers to keep us alive • Genes • passed on • Physiology (the brain) • brains of those with anxiety disorders actually function differently • Cognitive • The way you look at the world or social situations (social phobias for example)

  11. 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.

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