HEA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attack
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Characterized by persistent feelings of fear, dread, and worry. More than 40 million american adults each year suffer from an anxiety disorder. Often accompanied by depressive disorders or substance abuse problems. Chronic worry and pessimism about everyday events that lasts at least six months: a person with gad often overreacts with little provocation, may be accompanied by physical symptoms (fatigue, headaches, muscle aches, nausea). Strikes about twice as many women as men: onset generally occurs between childhood and middle age. Panic disorder: reoccurring panic attacks and the fear of a panic attack occurring: affects 6 million adults in the united states. Repeated and unwanted thoughts (obsessions) that lead to rituals (compulsions) in an attempt to control anxiety: obsessions tend to be overblown or unrealistic worries, rituals provide brief relief from anxiety but can end up controlling the individual"s life. Checking or touching things, hoarding, or counting can disrupt normal living: approximately 2. 2 million men and women in the united.
