PSYC 340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Somatic Symptom Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder
17 May 2020
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Anxiety- a response to something that may not even be there- too extreme. Panic disorder- caused by way you think. Social anxiety disorder: getting worse with kids growing up with tech. General anxiety disorder: chronic and slowly beats you down. Separation anxiety disorder: happens with kids, abandonment shit, irrational fear. Selective mutism: more often than not boys. Ocd- know the basics: obsessive-thinking, compulsive-actions trying to relieve thinking, frustrating can"t stop getting thought out of head, related disorders- Hoarding: usually triggered by the loss of something or loved one. Excoriation-skin picking: lot say it"s a relief from anxiety while they do it. Somatic- are bodily symptoms/ dissociative- consciousness disruptions. Malingering- intentionally faking a psych or physical symptom. Munchausen syndrome fake or exaggerate symptoms for no obvious incentive or apparent reason apart from playing sick: factitious disorder by proxy- causing fake symptoms in other person. Psychogenic- relating from psych factors (aka somatic seizures)
