PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Systematic Desensitization, Panic Attack, Panic Disorder

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1101
• Professor: Johnachee

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Anti-anxiety medication which affect your brain neurotransmitter that relate to anxiety. Control symptom by feeling less anxious: exposure and escape prevention. You expose to the thing that have phobia and you prevent normal response. People who have phobia normally try to get out of that situation, it does not let them escape until they feel better about it. Systematic desensitization: exposing to what you are afraid of systematic way (gradual exposure: fear hierarchy. You are breaking it to highest to lowest some how: relaxation technique. Deep breathing exercise: gradual exposure procedure. Expose to something you are afraid of gradually. Step by step, more a(cid:374)(cid:454)iet(cid:455) pro(cid:448)oki(cid:374)g thi(cid:374)g, (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t (cid:373)o(cid:448)e up u(cid:374)til (cid:455)ou are rela(cid:454). Different from phobia because phobia has specific thing to avoid: panic disorder. So(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g (cid:271)ad thi(cid:374)g is goi(cid:374)g to happe(cid:374), (cid:271)ut (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)hat it is: agoraphobia. Often avoid crowd, market place, and even empty place.