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Anxiety Disorders Flashcards

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What are the 3 models of stress?

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  • Biomechanical “engineering”
  • Medicophysiological
  • Psychological (transactional)
    • Emphasises interaction between individual and environment
    • Environment does not cause stress, but individual response to stressor does
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What are the different foccuses for coping mechanisms?

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  • Problem focussed
    • Where stressor is modified
    • Such as preparation, studying or interview practice
  • Emotion focussed
    • Modify emotional reaction
    • Such as mental defence mechanisms (denial relaxation training) or taking sedative drugs
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What model describes how you need some stress to perform at best?

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Yerkes Dodson curve

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What are human reactions to stress producing anxiety?

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  • Psychological arousal
    • Fearful anticipation
    • Irritability
    • Sensitivity to noise
    • Poor concentration
    • Worrying thoughts
  • Autonomic arousal
    • Symptoms mediated by autonomic nervous system
      • GI
        • Dry mouth
        • Swallowing difficulties
        • Dyspepsia, nausea and wind
        • Frequent loose motions
      • Resp
        • Tight chest, difficulty inhaling
      • CVS
        • Palpitations/missed beats
        • Chest pain
      • Genitourinary
        • Frequency/urgency of micturition
        • Amenorrhoea/dysmenorrhoea
        • Erectile failure
      • CNS
        • Dizziness and sweating
  • Muscle tension
    • Tremor
    • Headache
    • Muscle pain
  • Hyperventilation
    • Hypocapnia
    • Numbness and tingling in extremities due to carpopedal spasm
    • Breathlessness
  • Sleep disturbance
    • Initial insomnia
    • Frequent waking
    • Nightmares and night terrors
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What is seen in psychological arousal in response to stress?

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  • Psychological arousal
    • Fearful anticipation
    • Irritability
    • Sensitivity to noise
    • Poor concentration
    • Worrying thoughts
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What is seen in autonomic arousal in response to stress?

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  • Autonomic arousal
    • Symptoms mediated by autonomic nervous system
      • GI
        • Dry mouth
        • Swallowing difficulties
        • Dyspepsia, nausea and wind
        • Frequent loose motions
      • Resp
        • Tight chest, difficulty inhaling
      • CVS
        • Palpitations/missed beats
        • Chest pain
      • Genitourinary
        • Frequency/urgency of micturition
        • Amenorrhoea/dysmenorrhoea
        • Erectile failure
      • CNS
        • Dizziness and sweating
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What are signs of muscle tension in response to stress?

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  • Muscle tension
    • Tremor
    • Headache
    • Muscle pain
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What is seen in hyperventilation in response to stress?

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  • Hyperventilation
    • Hypocapnia
    • Numbness and tingling in extremities due to carpopedal spasm
    • Breathlessness
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What are signs of sleep disturbances in response to stress?

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  • Sleep disturbance
    • Initial insomnia
    • Frequent waking
    • Nightmares and night terrors
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What is the difference between phobic anxiety disorders and general anxiety disorders?

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Both have same core anxiety symptoms but the either occur in particular circumstances:

  • Phobias
    • Agarophobia (fear of leaving home and entering crowded places, travelling alone)
    • Social phobia
    • Specific (isolated) phobias
  • General anxiety disorder (GAD)
    • Occurs persistently
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What does GAD stand for?

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General anxiety disorder

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What are different kinds of phobias?

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  • Agarophobia (fear of leaving home and entering crowded places, travelling alone)
  • Social phobia
  • Specific (isolated) phobias
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What is agarophobia?

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  • Agarophobia (fear of leaving home and entering crowded places, travelling alone)
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Pathology - generalised anxiety disorders

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Persistent (several months) and symptoms not confined to a situation or object

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Aetiology - generalised anxiety disorders

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  • No clear line between “normal” anxiety and anxiety disorders
    • Differ in extent of symptoms and durations
  • Stressor acting on personality predisposed to disorder
    • Due to genetic factors and environmental influences since childhood
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Epidemiology - generalised anxiety disorders

(sex, prevalence)

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  • W>M
  • Prevalence 5%
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Presentation - generalised anxiety disorders

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  • Psychological arousal
  • Autonomic arousal
  • Muscle tension
  • Hyperventilation
  • Sleep disturbance
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Differential diagnosis - generalised anxiety disorders

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  • Psychiatric conditions
    • Depression
    • Schizophrenia
    • Dementia
    • Substance misuse
  • Physical conditions
    • Thyrotoxocosis
    • Phaeochromoctoma
    • Hypoglycaemia
    • Asthma
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Management - generalised anxiety disorders

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  • Counselling
    • Clear plan of management
    • Explanation and education
    • Advice regarding caffeine, alcohol, exercise
  • Relaxation training
  • Medication
    • Antideppresants
      • SSRI
      • TCA
    • Not sedatives as high risk dependency
  • Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
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Classification - phobic anxiety disorders

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  • 3 clinically important syndromes
    • Specific phobia
      • Common ones include: heights, blood, germs, dentist
    • Social phobia
      • Anxiety in situations where person feels observed or could be criticised
      • Normal presentation combined with blushing and tremor
    • Agorophobia
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Presentation - phobic anxiety disorders

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  • Same core features as general anxiety but occur only in specific circumstances
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Complications - phobic anxiety disorders

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  • Leads to people avoiding these circumstances
  • Could lead to panic attack
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Management - social phobia

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  • CBT
  • Education and advice
  • Medication
    • SSRI antideppresants
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What are the core features of OCD?

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Core features are experience of recurrent obsessional thoughts and/or compulsive acts

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What are obsessive thoughts?

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  • Ideas, images or impulse
  • Occurring repeatedly and not willed
  • Unpleasant and distressing
  • Recognised as individual’s own thoughts
  • Usual key anxiety symptoms arise because of distress of the thoughts or attempts to resist
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What are compulsive acts of rituals?

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  • Behaviours that are repeated again and again
  • Not enjoyable
  • Not helpful
  • Viewed by sufferer as
    • Preventing some harm to self or others
    • Viewed as pointless and resisted with key anxiety symptoms accompanying resistance
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What are the rituals during OCD viewed as by the patient?

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  • Viewed by sufferer as
    • Preventing some harm to self or others
    • Viewed as pointless and resisted with key anxiety symptoms accompanying resistance
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Aetiology - OCD

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  • Genetic
    • Gene coding for 5HT receptors
  • 5HT function abnormalities
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Epidemiology - OCD

(prevalence, sex)

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  • Prevalence 2%
  • M=F
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Management - OCD

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  • General measures
    • Education and explanation
    • Involve partner/family
  • Serotonergic drugs
    • SSRI such as Fluoxetine
    • Clomipramine
  • CBT
  • Psychosurgery
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Pathology - PTSD

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Delayed and/or protracted reaction to a stressor of exceptional severity (would distress anyone), could be:

  • Combat
  • Natural or human0caused disaster
  • Rape
  • Assault
  • Torture
  • Witnessing any of the above
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What are some things that could cause PTSD?

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  • Combat
  • Natural or human0caused disaster
  • Rape
  • Assault
  • Torture
  • Witnessing any of the above
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Aetiology - OCD

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  • Stressful event which is of exceptional severity
  • Vulnerability factors
    • Mood disorder
    • Previous trauma – especially as child
    • Lack of social support
    • Female
  • Protective factors
    • Higher education and social group
    • Good paternal relationship
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What are vulnerability and protective factors for OCD?

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  • Vulnerability factors
    • Mood disorder
    • Previous trauma – especially as child
    • Lack of social support
    • Female
  • Protective factors
    • Higher education and social group
    • Good paternal relationship
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Epidemiology - OCD

(prevalence, sex)

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  • 1-4% 1 year prevalence
  • M:F 1:2
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Presentation - OCD

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  • 3 key elements to reaction
    • Hyperarousal
      • Persistent anxiety
      • Irritability
      • Insomnia
      • Poor concentration
    • Re-experiencing phenomena
      • Intense intrusive images
        • Flashbacks when awake
        • Nightmares during sleep
    • Avoiding reminders
      • Emotional numbness
      • Cue avoidance
      • Recall difficulties
  • Can happen months/years after event
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What are the 3 key elements to OCD reaction?

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  • Hyperarousal
    • Persistent anxiety
    • Irritability
    • Insomnia
    • Poor concentration
  • Re-experiencing phenomena
    • Intense intrusive images
      • Flashbacks when awake
      • Nightmares during sleep
  • Avoiding reminders
    • Emotional numbness
    • Cue avoidance
    • Recall difficulties
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Management - OCD

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  • Survivors of disasters screened at 1 month
  • Mild symptoms
    • Watchful waiting and review 1 month on
  • More severe symptoms
    • CBT
    • Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing
  • Medication
    • SSRI or TCA

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