Anxiety Disorders

Question 1

1. Agoraphobia

Answer 1

1. Fear of the marketplace/public meeting place/shopping mall
2. Occasions of panic
3. Most people with agoraphobia continue to have panic attacks at least a few times a month.
4. Also, independent of panic attacks
5. Anxiety seems to reduce when is
   safe place/home/neighbourhood.
6. Fear of Fear rather fear of place. fear of another panic attack.
7. Fear of place where escape is impossible eg. standing in line, on a bridge, travelling on a bus, train, plan.

Question 2

2. Specific phobia/ Simple phobia

Answer 2

1. Unreasonable fear of objects/situations,
2. Fear of animals, insects, water, storms, heihgts, blood, injections
3. Fear of embarrassment.

Question 3

3. Social Phobia

Answer 3

1. Fear of social situation in which embarrassment or humiliation may occur.
2. Some avoid social gathering, also known as performance anxiety,
3. Fear of performing in public because of fear of judgement,
4. Fear of watched by others, fear of trembling

Question 4

4. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Answer 4

1. Obsessions are recurrent, terrifying, persistent and repeated
2. Unwanted and intrusive thoughts causing anxiety, and compulsions are ritual acts.
3. Compulsions are repetitive behaviors such hand washing and checking, silently repeating words, counting objects over and over.

Question 5

5. General Anxiety Disorder

Answer 5

1. Persistent anxiety without the panic attacks,
2. Experienced independently of symptoms that define other anxiety disorders.
3. Unrealistic or excessive anxiety and worry that bothers the person most of the time for at least 6 moths, and somatic symptoms

Question 6

6. Panic Disorder

Answer 6

1. Such people believe that their symptoms reflect a catastrophic medical event such as heart attack or stroke.
2. Suffer to kind of anxiety: panic attack itself and the anticipation of panic.
3. Fear another panic, hence do not want to be involved
4. Also associated with Agoraphobia

Question 7

7. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Answer 7

1. Flashbacks or recurrent distressing memories of the traumatic event
2. Avoidance of external reminder of the event
3. Change in mood or thinking
4. Increase in anxiety or having irrational anxiety
5. Difficulty in sleeping or change in sleeping patterns
6. Easily irritated and/or angered