PSY-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Panic Attack
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Anxiety disorders group of behaviour disorders in which anxiety and maladaptive behaviours are core of the disturbance. Frequency and intensity of anxiety responses are out of proportion to situation that triggered them. Subjective-emotional component (feelings of tension and apprehension) Cognitive component (feeling of inability to cope, sense of impending danger) Physiological responses (increased heart rate and blood pressure, muscle tension) Behavioural responses (avoidance of certain situations and impaired task performance) Phobias strong and irrational fears of certain situations or objects. Most common include agoraphobia (fear of open and public spaces), social phobias, and specific phobias (dogs, snakes, spiders, etc. ) Generalized anxiety disorder a chronic state of diffuse, or free-floating , anxiety that is not attached to specific situations or objects. Panic disorders anxiety disorder characterized by unpredictable panic attacks and a fear that another will occur. Much more intense than generalized anxiety disorder. Many people develop agoraphobia because of fear that they will have an attack in public.
