PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Sympathomimetic Drug
15 Mar 2018
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12-17% of adults have some form of anxiety disorder in any given year. Commonalities with mood disorders ex. negative emotional responses (guilt, worry) Anxiety disorders have the highest cormobitity with other anxiety disorders (ex depression) The anxiety sufferer of today manifests the same mobilization as if fleeing from a predator. This mobilization is out of proportion to the actual threat. Evolution might amor those who have anxiety because it makes sense to have a built in c. Because of the learned association between sympathomimetic symptoms and anxiety dateline-iinduced sympathomimetic symptoms can reinforce further anxiety. The anxiety of a precieved threat mimics the same psychopathology as an actual threat . The emotional symptoms of anxiety disorders ocucur stimultsnously with the somatic ones. Patients with anxiety disorders often report escape and avoidance behaviours. They also tend to engage in catastrophic thinking by over-predicting the negative consequences of. High levels of diffuse negative emotion ( high levels, more intense, and across situations)
