PSYC 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Panic disorder: recurrent, unexpected panic attacks, signs, accelerated hearth rate, sweating, shaking, shortness of breath, feeling of choking, chest pain/discomfort, feeling dizzy, lightheaded, faint, de-realization or depersonalization, chills or hot flushes. Obsessive compulsive disorder: unwanted repetitive thoughts and behavior, obsessions: repetitive thoughts, symmetry, something awful happening, germs, compulsions: repetitive behavior, excessive hand washing, repeating rituals, repeatedly checking. Post-traumatic stress disorder: vivid flashbacks that make you relive stressful event, symptoms, social isolation, anxious, trouble sleeping, study found playing tetris minimizes flashbacks. Inflated self-esteem: decreased need for sleep, racing thoughts, grandiosity, distractibility, extreme goal directed activity, excessive engagement in risky but pleasure-seeking activity. Causes of depression: social-cognitive perspective, how people"s assumptions & expectations influence what we perceive, beck"s theory, global: everything i do sucks, stable: it"s always going to suck. Schizophrenia: chronic: you get it in adolescence or early adulthood, demonstrates more negative symptoms, acute: you get it after something traumatizing, responds better to treatment.
