Anxiety Disorders

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Anxiety Disorders

• a group of conditions where the primary symptoms
  are anxiety or defenses against anxiety.

the patient fears something awful will happen to
them.
Are anxiety disorders a neurosis or psychosis.?
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What is anxiety?

• is a state of intense apprehension, uneasiness,
  uncertainty, or fear.

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• An anxiety disorder in which a person is
  continuously tense, apprehensive and in a state
  of autonomic nervous system arousal.

The patient is constantly tense and worried,
feels inadequate, is oversensitive, cant
concentrate and suffers from insomnia.
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Panic Disorder

• An anxiety disorder marked by a minutes-long
  episode of intense dread in which a person
  experiences terror and accompanying chest pain,
  choking and other frightening sensations.

Can cause secondary disorders, such as
agoraphobia.
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Phobias

• A person experiences sudden episodes of intense
  dread.

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The Phobia List Link
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

• An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted
  repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions
  (compulsions).

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Common Examples of OCD
Common Obsessions Common Compulsions
Contamination fears of germs, dirt, etc. Washing
Imagining having harmed self or others Repeating
Imagining losing control of aggressive urges Checking
Intrusive sexual thoughts or urges Touching
Excessive religious or moral doubt Counting
Forbidden thoughts Ordering/arranging
A need to have things "just so" Hoarding or saving
A need to tell, ask, confess Praying
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Explanations for Anxiety Disorders

• You Learn them through conditioning.

• Evolution

• Genes

• Physiology (the brain)