PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Panic Attack, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder
17 Feb 2018
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Cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning . Anxiety - feeling threatened by a hypothetical situation or future event. Eg, walking in the woods and feeling like you may run into a bear. Fear - feeling threatened by a real or precieved threat. Eg -seeing a bear in the woods and fear of its attack. Panic - extreme fear that is unprovoked (a false alarm) All three engage the fight-or-flight system to respond to a greater or lesser degree. Anxiety disorders are among the most common of all mental disorders (up to 25% lifetime prevalence, including ocd and trauma related disorders) Mostly, symptoms start in early teenage years and early adulthood (peak incidents) Anxious people tend to have anxious children, although they are not necessarily afraid of the same things. Greatly raises the chance of having some type of anxiety disorder. 3 for heritability (gad) to 73% separation anxiety disorder.
