HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Panic Disorder, Dsm-5, Agoraphobia
27 Sep 2016
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Fear vs. anxiety: fear: response to real and present danger, helps to organize responses to threat, like. Ght or ight: anxiety: apprehension about anticipated events. Dif cult to control thoughts in state of anxiety, could be unreasonable/ illogical. Halo effect, changes your perception of things: some positive uses, up to a point. Normal part of human condition/. without exceptionality, becomes problematic. Classi cation of anxiety disorders: emerged as distinct group of disorders in dsm lll, previously part of neuroses (emotional disturbance, where person had awareness. Now merely necessary for fear and worry to be. !1: scope of what mental illness meant, broadened. Monday, september 26, 2016 between normal and abnormal. Panic disorder: characterized by recurrent, unexpected panic attacks- similar to a heart attack. Agoraphobia: extreme fear about situations where escape is dif cult or embarrassing (crowded shops, theatres, tunnels, unlike other phobias, not closeness to a speci c object but distance from safety thats the problem.
