HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Panic Disorder, Panic Attack, Anxiety Disorder
19 Oct 2017
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It is a pre-caution that the body takes for a futuristic event. Apprehension about anticipated events: physiological chances, it is going to materialize sometime, your body will respond. Quickened pulse, sweat, etc: dif cult to control thoughts in state of anxiety, halo effect. It"s like a prism that colours everything that you look at. Past, present, and future may be coloured by that anxiety. It reshapes how you understand that world: some positive uses up to a point. Helps to take action, prepare for an event. When it becomes too much, that"s when it turns into clinical signi cance. Classi cation of anxiety disorders: emerged as distinct group of disorders in dsm - 3 (1980, it gets it"s own chapter", it was grouped together with ocd and depression, previously part of neuroses (emotional disturbance, w/ awareness) Neuroses: emotional disturbances where the person was aware that they were experiencing something unusual. Separated from the psychosis - break from the reality.
