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3 Anxiety Disorders & OCD Flashcards

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What is Anxiety?

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Future focused negative affect focused on the possibility of danger or misfortune

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What is fear?

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Present oriented response to immediate threat

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What is panic?

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Sudden, uncontrollable, overwhelming fear; may also capture the behav. components

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Biological contributions to anxiety (3)

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  • Neurotransmitters
  • Behavioural Inhibition System (BIS)
  • ANS - Symp & Para
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Part of ANS assoc. with flight or fight

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Sympathetic

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Physical Symptoms of Anxiety (7)

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  • sweating
  • blushing
  • dizziness
  • shortness of breath
  • numbness or tingling
  • Heart racing
  • Trembling
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Psychological and Social Contributions to Anxiety? (4)

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  • Environment -
    • parent responses
    • secure home base
  • Learning - classical and operant conditioning
  • Cognition
    • Appraisal and interpretation of environment
  • Social
    - Stressors
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Specific Phobia prevalence

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  • Lifetime prevalence - 12 %
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Specific Phobia

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An irrational fear of a specific object or situation that markedly interferes with an individuals ability to function

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Blood-injury-injection can cause

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Vasovagal response - blood pressure drops suddenly - faint

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Social Phobia

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Anxiety regarding social or performance situations

  • unfamilliar
  • possible scrutiny
  • humiliation or embarrassment
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Comorbidity of depression and social phobia?

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  • 50%
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Life-time prevalence of Social Phobia?

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12 %

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Key treatment to social phobia?

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Exposure therapy

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GAD

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  • Excessive and uncontrollable worry
  • At least 6 months
  • More days than not
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How do GAD sufferers physical symptoms differentiate from typical anxiety?

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  • ANS cannot sustain 6 months
  • GAD sufferers show less responsiveness to stress
  • muscle tension differences
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Cognitive differences in GAD

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Hypervigilance to potential threat

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GAD and uncertainty

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Cognitive, emotional and behavioural reactions to uncertainty in everyday life

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Cognitive model of GAD

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  • Intolerance of uncertainty
  • Poor-problem orientation
  • Cognitive avoidance
  • Positive beliefs about worry
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Panic Disorder

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A discrete period of intense fear or discomfort in which four or more of the following symptoms developed abruptly and reached a peak within 10 min

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Symptoms of Panic Disorder (13)

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  • Palpitations
  • Sweating
  • Trembling
  • Sensations of shortness of breath
  • Feeling of choking
  • Chest pain
  • Nausea/ abdominal stress
  • Dizziness
  • Derealisation/depersonalition
  • Fear of losing control or going crazy
  • Fear of dying
  • Parathesis
  • Chills or hot flushes
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What is the fear associated with panic disorder?

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  • Persistent concern about having additional attacks
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At least on of the attacks has been followed by 1 month + of the following (5)

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  • Persistent concern about having additional attacks
  • Worry about the implications of the attack or its consequences (going crazy, having a heart attack etc.)
  • Significant change in behaviour related to the attacks
  • Not better accounted for by a physiological disorder
  • Not due to a substance
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Agoraphobia

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Anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult or where help may not be available

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Etiology of Panic Disorder

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  • Hypersensitive to stress = pronounced physiological reactions
  • Person begins associating physical symptoms with stress
  • Which become triggers
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Obsessions

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  • Intrusive and mostly nonsensical thoughts images or urges that the individual tries to resist or eliminate
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Compulsions

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The thoughts or actions used to suppress the obsessions and provide relief

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