Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Panic Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Read: 524-531 stress: a pattern of physiological, behavioural, emotional, and cognitive responses to real or imagined stimuli that are perceived as blocking a goal or endangering our well- being. 1. stressors catastrophes life changes daily hassles all the daily hassles can add up and eventually you"ll blow. Holmes & rahe - life events stress tests give points to each life change (ie. death of a spouse is 100) score more than 200 is dangerous. Noise pollution -- anke et al. (2010) and hansell et al. (2013) General symptoms of anxiety disorder subjective distress physiological activation avoidance/escape behaviour interference/restriction in daily routine, occupational or social functioning. 1. social support -- ability to rely on and talk to others. House et al (1988) tracked 37,000 people those with weak social ties twice as likely to die. Pennebaker (1997) -- students asked to talk about traumatic or trivial events trauma: higher immune functioning, 50% fewer visits to campus health services.