ANXIETY AND OCD Flashcards
What are common features of anxiety disorders?
persistent, common, undiagnosed and untreated. Acts as a common predictor to the future mental health challenges
What is anxiety?
future-oriented emotion characterized by feelings of apprehension and lack of control over upcoming events that could be potentially threatening.
What are the symptoms of anxiety?
Physical: anxious arousal; increased heart rate, palpitations, sweating, increase in respiration, nausea, dry mouth
Cognitive: Anxious apprehension; worry of the future events, diff concentrating, self-critical thoughts, thoughts of incompetency, thoughts of bodily injuries.
Behavioural: avoidance behaviours bring temporary relief ; lack of eye contact, fidgeting, stuttering, nail biting, clenched jaw etc.
______ is the present-oriented worry and is a response to a real time danger or threat to ourselves
Fear
__________ is future oriented worry that has no real basis or perceived threat. It is a general fear to what may happen in the future
Anxiety
_____ is when you feel sudden intense fears and it comprises of both emotional and physical aspects but it is an oversenstivity and your brain misinterpreting somthing to be dangerous when its not
Panic
When you persistently feel uncontrollable and intense worry or fear and negative emotion over the future by purposely avoiding certain situations that might trigger it, is termed as ____
Anxiety disorder
In what cases is anxiety normal?
adaptive and developmental stage related
What are the boundaries between appropriate form of anxiety and abnormally excessive kind
- prolonged anxiety
- intense/exaggerated and unreasonable anxiety levels
- disabling such that it impairs everyday functioning
- distressing
What are the characteristics associated to anxiety?
- chronic negative feedback loop
- difficulty maintaing and initiating friendships
- substance abuse
- social withdrawal
- interferes with academics
6.low self esteem - loneliness
Hoe does school refusal manifest itself
- occurs between ages 5-11
- impacts 2 to 5% kids
- occurs during
- refusal to attend school or difficulty attending a whole day of classes
- transition periods like kindergarten, middle/hgh school or after school breaks
One form of maladaptive behavior can be viewed as a way to adapt or cope in new situations
T/F?
TRUE
1.What are the characteristic of Separation Anxiety disorder?
2.What is the prevalence rate and comorbidity in SAD?
- Onset and course
- Disabling excessive anxiety or distress over separation from home or attachment figures. Anxiety or nightmares.
Worry about harm to caregivers or some event causing harm to caregivers
Somatic/physical complaints include stomachaches, headaches, rapid heartbeat, dizziness and nausea - prevalence is 4-10% among youth. mOST children GO ON TO DEVELOP ANXIETY AFTER SAD and half develop depressive disorder. School rfusal is highly common among children. Prevalent among boys and girls equally.
- SAD is reported t a very early age and has a young age of onset (7-8 years). SAD varies as a function of stress and transitions in the chikds life. However, they tend to lose out on friends but are skilled socially.
School performance declines due to school absences resulting from refusal to attend school. SAD persisting in adulthood impacts relationships and might lead to panic or depressive disorders.
What is a specific phobia?
Phobia of specific situation or object that is age inappropriate and tends to persist and is also irrational it is called. specific phobia.
Exposure to thr situation or object implies fear or anxiety.
- The fear should persist for atleast 6 months
- experience extreme fear or dread
- physiological symptoms
- fear is out of proportion
- 20% youths experience it
- higher risk of developing a phobic disorder exhibited by parent
- comorbidity and its mostly anxiety
- more common in girls than boys especially blood phobias
- 7 to 9 years of age during onset
What is Generalized anxiety disorder? Define its characterstics.
What is the prevalence and comorbidity?
onset and course of development
It is an apprehensive expectation- minor or major and includes a a wide range of issues that are either minor or major
- the anxiety can be episodic or continuous and is uncontrollable
- self-concious and critical which leads to interpresonal problems and avoidance of those whom they perceive critical
- have high standards for slef which leads to them being critical of themselves. They are perfectionists and seek assurance from outside/others
- physical symptoms of GAD include muscle tension,, headaches nausea
- there is an intolerance for uncertainty
- difficulty concentrating, irritability, cant fall asleep, restlessness
- chronic worry as a cognitive avoidance
- least common anxiety disorder
- prevalence rate of 3-6% among youth
- equally common in boys and girls but older adolescent females have a slight higher prevalence
- higher rate of anxiety disorders
- MDD and GAD are highly occurring disorders
- most common among children referred to anxiety clinics
- young children: comorbidity exists with SAD and conduct problems
- older children: comorbidity with specific phobias, social anxiety, mdd, imired social adjustment and low self esteem and increased risk of suicide - ONSET: early adolescence
- high rates of symptoms in older adolescents suggests higher levels of anxiety and depression
- if follw-up casess of GAD symptoms continued tpo persist and even got severe after 2 years of initial assessment
- full remission is highly unlikely among GAD cases
- ONSET: early adolescence
