anxiety

Question 1

4 symptoms that categorize anxiety

Answer 1

• emotions: fear/worry (fear, anx, irritability, overwhelmed)
• physical sensations (racing heart, trouble sleeping/eating, tension, upset stomach)
• avoidance behaviour (avoiding activities that cause anxiety, withdrawal)
• catastrophic thoughts (rumination abt worst possible outcomes, self conscious thought, worry:what if)

Question 2

fear disorders

Answer 2

• panic disorder
• agoraphobia
• SAD
• Specific phobia
• OCD

Question 3

fear definition

Answer 3

• basic human emotion in response to perceived danger/threat
• evolutionary adaptive ‘fight or flight’ response

Question 4

HPA axis

Answer 4

• hyopthalamic pituitary adrenal axis
• stressful event>brain>hypothalamus>(chemical message)>pituitary gland>(hormone)>adrenal glands>cortisol

Question 5

fight or flight response described

Answer 5

• mobilizes physiological resources needed to cope w acute life threatening danger
• diverts blood to major muscle groups to permit fighting or fleeing

Question 6

fight or flight physiological responses

Answer 6

• increased heart rate
• increased rate of breathing
• constrict blood vessels
• increase sweat glands
• dilate pupils
• decrease blood supply to brain and other major organs

Question 7

anxiety def

Answer 7

• emotional response to anticipation of future threat
• normal human emotion that is evolutionarily adaptive

Question 8

when does anxiety turn into anxiety disorder

Answer 8

• anxiety is out of proportion to the actual threat posed by situation

Question 9

what determines a persons response to a situation

Answer 9

• psychology (personality, cog style, symtoms)
• neurobiology (genetics, brain morphology/function)
• context (prior stress exposure, social location)

Question 10

role of avoidance in maintaining and anxiety

Answer 10

• rapid increasing anxiety gives urge to escape
• a common (mistake) expectation that anx will cont to increase to catastrophic level
• in reality, anxiety naturally decreases w exposure

Question 11

what happens if someone escape a situation at peak anxiety

Answer 11

• short term relief
• long term heightening and generalization of anx
• no long term solution

Question 12

fear and exposure

Answer 12

• exposure to fear object/situation results in habituation and reduction of fear
• fear often reduces faster w repeated exposure