HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture 4: Lecture 4B
22 Nov 2016
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Generalized anxiety disorder (cid:498)chronic worries(cid:499) not fixed, may not even have clear source. Accompanied by minor disturbances in sleep, irritability, concentration, restlessness. Stereotypes?: overlap: a distinct disorder or just a symptom? (gad and depression, superego (top), id (bottom), ego (middle) reinforcement. Evolutionary: anxiety and phobias adaptive in some situations, out of place in. Behavioural: learned behaviours acquired through conditioning and. Life events: people who experience agoraphobia more likely to have faced. Freud: anxiety a (cid:494)warning sing(cid:495) about id(cid:495)s impulses. We get anxious when were about to do something we (cid:498)shouldn(cid:495)t do(cid:499) (cid:498)dangerous(cid:499) situations, like crime, conflict, serious arguments. Depression: doesn(cid:495)t hold true for all types of anxiety disorders, perhaps panic disorder result from brain defect when faced with biologically dangerous situations (hyperventilation), we misinterpret these signals as genuinely life threatening. Genetics may okay role; inherit proclivity to panic vs. experiencing by contrast, associated with loss generalized anxiety distinctly. Psychotherapies: exposure therapy, relaxation techniques, breathing exercises.
