HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mental Disorder, Dsm-5, Panic Disorder
8 Feb 2020
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Lecture 4: Anxiety Disorders
Fear vs. Anxiety
- Fear: response to real & present danger. Helps organize responses to treat, like “fight
or flight”
- Anxiety: apprehension about anticipated events
• physiological changes- sweating, trembling, pulse raises
• difficult to control thoughts in state of anxiety
• halo effect: surrounds you and changes perception of things; how you look at the
future or past
- Some positive uses… up to a point. Without exceptionality, becomes problematic
• summon energy for motivation
• like depression
• not definable- depends on the judgement of the person experiences it or the person
who makes the diagnosis
Classification of Anxiety Disorders
- Emerged as distinct group of disorder in DSM-II
- Perviously part of “neuroses” (emotional disturbance, where person has awareness)
• awareness dropped in DSM-5. Now merely necessary for fear & worry to be
“disproportionate to the situation”… who judges that?
- Splitting movement has dived anxiety disorders. Share common symptom- intense
worry disproportionate to actual environmental danger.
• how neat are these categories?
Rise of Interest in Anxiety
Document Summary
Fear: response to real & present danger. Helps organize responses to treat, like fight or flight . Anxiety: apprehension about anticipated events: physiological changes- sweating, trembling, pulse raises, difficult to control thoughts in state of anxiety, halo effect: surrounds you and changes perception of things; how you look at the future or past. Some positive uses up to a point. Without exceptionality, becomes problematic: summon energy for motivation, like depression, not definable- depends on the judgement of the person experiences it or the person who makes the diagnosis. Emerged as distinct group of disorder in dsm-ii. Perviously part of neuroses (emotional disturbance, where person has awareness: awareness dropped in dsm-5. Now merely necessary for fear & worry to be. Asylums primarily house psychotic individuals and those deemed too dangerous to remain in community. Anxiety was not something people understood as a mental disorder.
