HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Panic Disorder, Dsm-5, Lowkey
20 Jul 2018
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Fear vs anxiety: fear response to a real and present danger. Helps organize responses to threat, like fight or flight : fear is something that motivates us, anxiety is about potential future threats, is always forward looking, anxiety apprehension about anticipated events: Physiological changes: elevated heart rate, sweaty palms, trembling. Difficult to control thoughts in state of anxiety: difficult to stop what their thinking about. Halo effect: something that surrounds the way you think about the world. Its also something that changes how you understand yourself: anxiety is profoundly a physical experience, some positive uses up to a point. Without exceptionality become problematic: helps organize us in a way (prepare for a future event) Classifications of anxiety disorders: emerged as district group of disorder in dsm-iii, in 1980 another dsm comes out and breaks apart anxiety disorder, previously part of neuroses (emotional disturbance. w/ awareness) Now merely necessary for fear & worry to be.
