Anxiety Flashcards
• 6 months of symptoms more days
than not
• Anxiety/worry about a number of
events
• 3 of 6 symptoms of SITCOM (for
kids only 1):
- Sleep
- Irritable
- Tired
- Concentrating
- On edge
- Muscle Tension
Generalized Anxiety
Disorder
• Panic attacks or anxiety due to a
medical issue
• Not only during delirium
• Coding: include the name of the
medical condition
Anxiety Disorder Due to
Another Medical
Condition
• Significant, has anxiety, doesn’t
meet criteria and you choose to
communicate the reason it doesn’t
meet criteria, f.e.: Other Specified
Anxiety Disorder, generalized
anxiety not occurring more days
than not.
Other Specified Anxiety
Disorder
• Significant, has anxiety, doesn’t
meet criteria and you choose not
to specify the reason:
- includes when there’s not
enough info to make a more
specific diagnosis
Unspecified Anxiety Disorder
• Panic attacks or anxiety that occur
soon after intoxication or withdrawal
• Not only during delirium
• Specifiers:
1. With onset during intoxication
2. With onset during withdrawal
3. With onset after medication use
Substance/Medication
Induced Anxiety Disorder
• 4 weeks in kids, 6 months in adults
• developmentally inappropriate
anxiety concerning separation
evidenced by 3 symptoms
Separation Anxiety
Disorder
• 1 month (not the first month of
school)
• failure to speak in specific social
situations where there is an expectation, not the result of lack of knowledge or issues with language.
Selective Mutism
• 6 months
• Anxiety/fear about a specific
object/situation
- immediate fear, actively avoided
• Specifiers:
1. Animal
2. Natural environment
3. Blood Injection
4. Situational
5. Other
Specific Phobia
• 6 months
• Anxiety/fear in social situations
with possible scrutiny
• fear of being negatively evaluated
• for kids, can’t be with adults
• Specifiers:
performance only
Social Anxiety Disorder
• 1 month of concern
• Recurrent unexpected panic attacks
with 4 symptom
Panic Disorder
• Same as panic attacks but it occurs
in the context of another mental
disorder.
Panic Attack Specifier
• 6 months
• fear/anxiety about 2 or more public
situations:
1. fear is that escape is difficult
2. place is avoided
• You can have agoraphobia and panic
disorder if criteria fits
Agoraphobia