PS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dsm-5, Agoraphobia, Mood Disorder
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The experience of stress and anxiety is very different from person to person. Irritable: unable to sleep, catastrophizing, sleep too much (more common with mood disorders, nausea, heart racing, tightness in chest, overthinking, and so on . Flow: the psychology of optimal experience: don"t banish anxiety but have the perfect amount- flow, challenge level vs skill level, this is a question on the midterm* Anxiety disorders: anxiety: the unpleasant feeling of fear and apprehension, 2 major components: The cognitive: tends to be future focused. Emphasis on things that could happen: the negative reinforcement problem. Reinforced by the avoidance of the feared outcomes: tend to be comorbid, number one most diagnosed disorder. The complexity of anxiety disorders: anxiety, fear, panic, panic attacks. More so in conjunction with a mood disorder: biological contributions. Fight/flight system: psychological contributions, social contributions, triple vulnerability model. Ocd- not part of anxiety disorders in dsm-5: generalized anxiety disorder. 1. 1% of canadians- way under reported (particularly males)
