Anxiety Disorders Flashcards
What are the five types of anxiety disorders?
1) generalized anxiety disorder
2) panic disorder
3) Posttraumatic stress disorder
4) phobia
5) obsessive-compulsive disorder
What is anxiety?
A bag feeling of apprehension and nervousness. Anxiety disorders may begin to take control and dominate your life
Explain generalized anxiety disorder or
Disruptive levels of persistent, unexplained feelings of apprehension and tenseness. It is long-lasting and not attached to a particular situation.
What are the symptoms of anxiety?
Restlessness, feeling on edge, sleep disturbance, irritability, muscle tension, difficulty in concentrating and your mind going blank. Individuals with generalized anxiety disorder or must experience at least three of the symptoms
Explain panic disorder
Mark my side and outs of intense unexplained panic. Sometimes it will be accompanied with panic attacks
Explain panic attacks
Episodes of unexplained terror and fear that something bad is going to happen. May involve physical symptoms such as choking sensations or shortness of breath
What is a phobia?
Marked by disruptive, irrational fears of objects or situations. This year must be both irrational and disruptive.
What is agoraphobia?
The fear of situations the person views as difficult to escape from if panic begins to build.
Explain obsessive-compulsive disorder.
March by unwanted, repetitive thoughts and actions. Two major symptoms of OCD are obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions and compulsions May begin to take control with some peoples lives
What are obsession
Repetitive thoughts
What are compulsions
Repetitive actions
Explains posttraumatic stress disorder
Characterized by reliving a severely upsetting event in unwanted recurring memories and dreams. Intense stress is the trigger and symptoms include nightmares, persistent fear, difficulty relating normally two others and troubling memories or flashbacks of the Trumatic event. Negative consequences of bad experiences temperatures increased anxiety formany years.
What are the causes of anxiety disorders?
Anxiety disorders could be caused by nature or nurture. Both factors are important
Explain the biological factors of an anxiety disorder.
Heredity – some inherit a predisposition for developing anxiety disorders
Brain function – people with anxiety disorders have brains that function differently. Differences in the frontal lobe’s or amygdala show differences
Evolution – we are likely to fear situations that post danger to the earliest humans. Those who survived passed onto us their tendency to fear these dangers.
Explain conditioning
We learned to associate with certain places or things.
