PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Panic Attack
21 Sep 2020
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No: ocd you are stressed out if there is a break in your cycle and you will have an anxiety attack, cycle that you have to repeat. Started on 5mg/day doses of cipralex (escitalopram) After a week, up dose to 10mg/day. Initial reaction: very drowsy, upset stomach, emotional fluctuations vivid dreams. Overtime: still drowsy, but emotionally stable, vivid dreams, still had maladaptive thinking, however, emotional response was not the same this is where cbt will help, cipralex benefits peaked, switched to zoloft (25mg/day, then 50mg/day, helped the numbness. Mother had aneurism and stroke: she goes into cardiac arrest, they revived her. For next 6 months every time she called to someone and they didn"t answer she had panic attack up for miss universe canada 2016. Made it to nations: from chronic stress + genetics she was diagnosed with the following autoimmune diseases. Sjogren"s disease rheumatoid arthritis: did a triathlon to heal how to get better.
