HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attack, Panic Disorder
13 Apr 2016
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Helps organize responses to threat, like ight or light - a helpful reacion to a threat which helps organize our thoughts and reacions. Anxiety: apprehension about anicipated events - when someone is worrying about things that may happen in the future o o o. Usually physiological changes, e. g. increased heart rate, blood pressure, sweaing, pupil dilaing, etc. Diicult to control thoughts in state of anxiety - hard to organize your thoughts. Halo efect: negaivity overshadows everything, may lead to pessimisic outlook on life - you are anicipaing a future full of threats. People may get anxious about their exams and it would moivate them to study. Too much anxiety without excepional reasons ceases to have posiive beneit. Emerged as disinct group of disorders in dsm-iii - the dsm-iii was very important as it changed the way the book was writen - focused less on psychoanalyical perspecive (causes) and focussed more on symptoms.
