HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture 4: Lecture 4
22 Nov 2016
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Anxiety: apprehension about anticipated events race, feel heart sometimes problematic. Problematic when happening without reason/sparked by something: difficult to control thoughts in state of anxiety, halo effect (surrounds you and changes your perception of things) Phobia is a type of anxiety disorder. Fear: response to real and present danger. Helps organize responses to threat, like (cid:498)fight or flight(cid:499: physiological changes sometimes people sweat, tremble, pulse will. Some positive uses up to a point. Emerged as distinct group of disorders in dsm iii. Previously part of (cid:498)neuroses(cid:499) (emotional disturbance, where person had awareness) person has emotional problem/disturbance; differentiated: awareness dropped by dsm 5. Share core symptom intense worry disproportionate to actual environmental danger. Asylums primarily housed psychotic individuals and those deemed too dangerous to remain in community. Freud"s emphasis on neuroses helped reshape 20th c. as the age of anxiety. Characterized by recurrent, unexpected panic attacks similar to a heart attack. Person may obsessively worry about another attack.
