PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attack
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Psychological disorder : pattern of behavioral or psychological symptoms that causes significant personal suffering, weakens the ability to function in one or more relevant areas of life, or both. Provides mental health professionals with a common language for classifying disorders and guidelines for diagnosing them. Unpleasant emotional state, characterized by arousal) and feeling of tension, apprehension and worry. In anxiety disorder, anxiety is maladaptive - Disruption of daily activities, moods and mental processes. Anxiety disorders: there must be significant impairment in cognitive functioning, behavioral or interpersonal person. The state of anxiety does not pass and the cause always changes. Panic disorders: recurrent episode of extreme anxiety that rapidly increases in intensity; Phobias: intense and irrational fear triggered by a specific object or situation. The object of fear can cause a panic attack. Fear of having panic attacks in public places. Events of moments or situations that trigger memories and about a general insensitivity of emotional responses.
