4 Anxiety Disorders Flashcards
Fear
Emotion of an intermediate alarm reaction to present danger or life-threatening emergencies.
Anxiety
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.
Panic
Sudden, overwhelming fright or terror.
Panic attack
Abrupt experience of intense fear or discomfort accompanied by several physical symptoms, such as dizziness or heart publications.
Behavioral inhibition system BIS
Brain circuit in the limbic system that response to the threat signals by inhibiting activity and causing anxiety.
Fight/flight system FFS
Brain circuits in animals that when stimulated causes an immediate alarm-and-escape response resembling human panic.
Generalized anxiety disorder GAD
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.
Panic disorder with agoraphobia
PDA
Fear and avoidance of situations the person believes might induce a dreaded panic attack
Agoraphobia
Anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult.
Panic disorder without agoraphobia
PD
Panic attacks experience without development of agoraphobia.
Panic control treatment
PCT
Cognitive-behavioral treatment for panic attacks, involving gradual exposure to your somatic sensations and modification of perceptions and attitudes about some.
Specific phobia
Unreasonable fear of a specific object or situation that markedly interferes with daily life functioning.
Blood-injury-injection phobia
Unreasonable fear and avoidance of exposure to blood, injury, or the possibility of an injection. Victims experience faking in a drop in blood pressure.
Situational phobia
Anxiety involving a close places or public transportation.
Natural environment phobia
Fear of situations or events in nature, especially heights, storms, and water.
Animal phobia
Unreasonable, in enduring fear of animals or insects that usually develops early life.
Separation anxiety disorder
Excessive, enduring fear in some children that heart will come to them or their parents while they are apart.
Social phobia
Social anxiety disorder
SAD
Extreme, enduring, irrational fear and avoidance of social or performance situations.
Post dramatic stress disorder
PTSD
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.
Acute stress disorder
Severe reaction immediately following a terrifying events, often including amnesia about the events, emotional numbing, in derealization. Many victims later develop posttraumatic stress disorder.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
OCD
Anxiety disorder involving unwanted, persistent, intrusive thoughts and impulses, as well as repetitive actions intended to suppress them.
Obsessions
Recurrent intrusive thoughts or impulse the client seeks to suppress or neutralize while recognizing it is not imposed by outside forces.
Compulsions
Repetitive, ritualistic, time-consuming behavior or mental acts a person feels driven to perform.
