HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
16 Dec 2014
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Fear: a response that occurs when faced with real & present danger. Helps us organize our behavioural responses to the threat. Positive anxiety and fear: fight or flight mechanism, similar to depression, a degree of anxiety is actually good for us. When it becomes too intense, however, it"s crippling. If intense anxiety is experienced on a daily basis (without exceptional reasons) it ceases to have much positive benefit. Classification of anxiety: anxiety disorders became a separate group of syndromes in dsm iii (1980). 3: previously conceptualized as neuroses (a variety of problems characterized by persistent emotional disturbances, i. e. anxiety and depression, where person was aware of the problem and in touch with reality [as opposed to psychosis]). E. g. air traffic controller with inside information who fears plane crashes is this disproportionate: we used to lump all anxiety disorders together. Now, however, we split things up into neat little categories: except they aren"t very neat.
