NSG 3335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Indigestion
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Characterized by anxiety so debilitating as to adverse effects adls. Free- oating anxiety - when anxiety is not related to a speci c stimulus. Often have underlying comorbidities illness like depression and substance abuse. Personality and mood changes, distorted perceptions, inability to concentrate, memory impairment, and defense mechanism. Psychotic meds and teaching adaptive coping are mainstays as treatment. Phobia is a persistent and irrational fear of a speci c object, activity, or situation that results in a compelling desire to avoid the dreaded object or situation. Nearly all phobic individuals experience panic when in contact with the phobic situation. Children do not always identify their fears as unrealistic. Palpitations, nausea, diarrhea, dyspepsia, rapid pulse, and feeling of chocking or suffocation. Restless and may make appeals for help advanced panic can mimic the symptoms of mi and mitral valve prolapse. Often fear leaving the safety of home, worrying that they might develop an incapacitating symptom.
