PSYC 2113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sleep Paralysis, Benzodiazepine, Parasympathetic Nervous System
15 Apr 2018
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There are distinguishing factors for anxiety, trauma, and ocd. Anxiety has a strong future-oriented mood state (anticipation), somatic symptoms of muscle tension, thoughts of not having control, a general sense of unease or concern. Fear is usually a response to an immediate threat. There is a strong need to avoid or escape a threat. Both activity and fear are normal emotional states. Anxiety and fear that are manageable are adaptive and necessary. Anxiety disorder characteristics: anxiety has to be pervasive (across whole life) and persistent, excessive avoidance tendencies, comorbidity (anxiety disorders are comorbid with a lot of other disorders), often suicidal thoughts. Panic attack characteristics: abrupt response to a perceived fear, physical symptoms (of. Heart rate, shaking, sweating, breathlessness, chest pain/discomfort, dizziness, nausea, chills/heat, numbing of extremities, derealisation, depersonalization, feelings of losing control or going crazy, fear of dying. There are two different types: expected (tied to some sort of situation) and unexpected (out of the blue)
