4 Anxiety Disorders

Question 0

Fear

Answer 0

Emotion of an intermediate alarm reaction to present danger or life-threatening emergencies.

Question 1

Anxiety

Answer 1

Mood state characterized by marked negative affect and bodily symptoms of tension in which a person apprehensively anticipates future danger or misfortune. Anxiety they involve feelings, behaviors, and physiological responses.

Question 2

Panic

Answer 2

Sudden, overwhelming fright or terror.

Question 3

Panic attack

Answer 3

Abrupt experience of intense fear or discomfort accompanied by several physical symptoms, such as dizziness or heart publications.

Question 4

Behavioral inhibition system BIS

Answer 4

Brain circuit in the limbic system that response to the threat signals by inhibiting activity and causing anxiety.

Question 5

Fight/flight system FFS

Answer 5

Brain circuits in animals that when stimulated causes an immediate alarm-and-escape response resembling human panic.

Question 6

Generalized anxiety disorder GAD

Answer 6

Anxiety disorder characterized by intense, uncontrollable, unfocused, chronic, a continuous worry that is distressing and unproductive, accompanied by physical symptoms of tenseness, irritability, and restlessness.

Question 7

Panic disorder with agoraphobia

PDA

Answer 7

Fear and avoidance of situations the person believes might induce a dreaded panic attack

Question 8

Agoraphobia

Answer 8

Anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult.

Question 9

Panic disorder without agoraphobia

PD

Answer 9

Panic attacks experience without development of agoraphobia.

Question 10

Panic control treatment

PCT

Answer 10

Cognitive-behavioral treatment for panic attacks, involving gradual exposure to your somatic sensations and modification of perceptions and attitudes about some.

Question 11

Specific phobia

Answer 11

Unreasonable fear of a specific object or situation that markedly interferes with daily life functioning.

Question 12

Blood-injury-injection phobia

Answer 12

Unreasonable fear and avoidance of exposure to blood, injury, or the possibility of an injection. Victims experience faking in a drop in blood pressure.

Question 13

Situational phobia

Answer 13

Anxiety involving a close places or public transportation.

Question 14

Natural environment phobia

Answer 14

Fear of situations or events in nature, especially heights, storms, and water.

Question 15

Animal phobia

Answer 15

Unreasonable, in enduring fear of animals or insects that usually develops early life.

Question 16

Separation anxiety disorder

Answer 16

Excessive, enduring fear in some children that heart will come to them or their parents while they are apart.

Question 17

Social phobia

Social anxiety disorder

SAD

Answer 17

Extreme, enduring, irrational fear and avoidance of social or performance situations.

Question 18

Post dramatic stress disorder

PTSD

Answer 18

Enduring, distressing emotional disorder that follows exposure to a severe helplessness – or fear-inducing threat. The victim reexperience is the trauma, avoid stimuli associated with it, and develops a numbing of responsiveness and an increased diligence and arousal.

Question 19

Acute stress disorder

Answer 19

Severe reaction immediately following a terrifying events, often including amnesia about the events, emotional numbing, in derealization. Many victims later develop posttraumatic stress disorder.

Question 20

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

OCD

Answer 20

Anxiety disorder involving unwanted, persistent, intrusive thoughts and impulses, as well as repetitive actions intended to suppress them.

Question 21

Obsessions

Answer 21

Recurrent intrusive thoughts or impulse the client seeks to suppress or neutralize while recognizing it is not imposed by outside forces.

Question 22

Compulsions

Answer 22

Repetitive, ritualistic, time-consuming behavior or mental acts a person feels driven to perform.