Anxiety Flashcards
Displacement
Dissociation
Conversion
Denial
Separation Anxiety
-Develop inappropriate levels of concern over being away from a significant other
-S/S: intense anxiety, distracts from normal activities, sleep disturbances and nightmares, physical symptoms such as GI disturbances and headaches, impairs social and occupational functioning
Phobias
-A persistent irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to actual avoidance of the object, activity, or situation.
-EX. claustrophobia, Zoophobia
-S/S: compromise in daily functioning, can’t think about or visualize the object or situation without severe anxiety, gives up activities
Agoraphobia
Derived from the Greek agora (“open space”) and phobia (‘fear”). It refers to intense excessive anxiety of fear about being in places…
Social Anxiety Disorder
Panic Disorder
Generalized Anxiety Disorder