PSYCH 3830 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3830
• Professor: Jo Jorgensen

Document Summary

Psyc 3830 lecture 9 & 10 (chapter 5) Fear is immediate, present-oriented, and has an element of wanting to. 76% (about ) with anxiety or depression have at least one. People with these disorders realize that they are being irrational. Both are generally negative emotions, but not necessarily (cid:498)bad(cid:499) A little anxiety helps up a person"s performance. Too much anxiety brings down a person"s performance. Comorbidity: two or more disorders in an individual. Bio: genetic vulnerability can be a factor panic disorder additional disorder at some point in life. For the test, know the classes of disorders and know which one is in each class of disorder. At least 6 months of excessive anxiety and worry. Difficult to turn off worrying (cid:523)even though they know it"s irrational(cid:524) (cid:498)free floating(cid:499)-in general worried about everything. Now they think it"s the opposite of free-floating. Median age of onset is 31 years old.