PS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Separation Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Panic attack: symptoms of a panic attack, pounding heart, sweating, shaking, shortness of breath, feelings of choking, chest pain, nausea, dizziness, chills (or heat, numbness, fear of losing control, fear of dying, derealisation of depersonalization. Derealisation feeling like the world around you isn"t real. Depersonalization feeling like an outside observer of your body, feeling like you"re outside of your body: types of panic attacks, uncued / unexpected. Wakes up from sleep to a panic attack. Uncued and nocturnal lead to diagnosis of panic disorder: cued / expected. Panic attack in situation where one would expect to have a panic attack. Trigger very strongly associated with expecting to have a panic attack: situationally predisposed. There is a trigger but might not be as strongly linked to having a panic attack. Panic attack in response to fear of being in a social condition. Only a couple of symptoms are present: other disorders that may involve panic attacks, specific phobia.
