Health Sciences 4091A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder
11 Dec 2016
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Chapter 1: the puzzle of anxiety disorders (horwitz & wakefield) The most common psychiatric disturbances are anxiety disorders (u. s. ) Startling increase in number of anxiety disorders. According to current psychiatric criteria, well over half the population suffers from anxiety disorders at some point in their lives: this estimate is roughly 30 times higher than that from 30 years ago. Life-threatening situations can result in intense fear as an initial response but this does not indicate a disorder: 9/11 attack: witnesses reported heightened anxiety that eventually dissipated within the next couple of months. Sometimes features of the present situation trigger memories of a terrifying event that provoked fear in the past, which is a normal process: features of 9/11 attack, ex. Some fears are more cognitively acquired, such as learning that an object could be dangerous to us whereas some fears seem to be innate.
