PSYCH 133B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder
3 May 2016
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Chapter 6: anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder. Symptoms of anxiety disorders: anxiety, either mood or syndrome, different from fear, fear experienced in the face of real, immediate danger, build quick in intensity, helps person organize behavioral threats from the environment, symptoms of anxiety a. Involves a more general or diffuse emotional reaction that is out of proportion to threats from the environment: associated with the anticipation of future problems, anxious apprehension. Attention turns inward focusing on negative emotions and self- evaluation. A shift in attention to a primary self-focus/state of self-preoccupation: can be adaptive at low levels serves as a signal that person must prepare for an upcoming event, ex. Less control over the content/direction of thoughts. Worries less realistic: panic attacks, panic attack, sudden, overwhelming experience of terror or fright, a normal fear response that is triggered at an inappropriate time.
