Anxiety Disorders Flashcards
These patients experience repeated panic attacks–brief episodes of intense dread or fear accompanied by a variety of physical and other symptoms, together with worry about having additional attacks and other related mental and behavioral changes. (1+ months)
Panic disorder
Patients with this condition fear situations or places such as entering a store, where they might have trouble obtaining help if they become anxious. (6+ months)
Agoraphobia
In this condition, patients fear specific objects or situations. Examples include animals; storms; heights; blood; airplanes; being closed in; or any situation that may lead to vomiting, choking, or developing an illness. (6+ months)
Specific phobia
These patients imagine themselves embarrassed when they speak, write, or eat in public or use a public urinal. (6+ months)
Social anxiety disorder
A child elects not to talk, except when alone or with select intimates (1+ months; typically begins during preschool years (ages 2-4))
Slective mutism
Although they experience no episodes of acute panic, these patients feel tense or anxious much of the time and worry about many different issues. (on most days for 6+ months)
Generalized anxiety disorder
The patient becomes anxious when separated from a parent or other attachment figure. (6+ months in adults; 4+ weeks in children)
Separation anxiety disorder
Panic attacks and generalized anxiety symptoms can be caused by numerous medical conditions.
Anxiety disorder due to another medical condition.
Use of a substance or medication has caused panic attacks or other anxiety symptoms
Substance/medication-induced anxiety disorder
Specify:
With onset during {intoxication}{withdrawal}
With onset after medication use
Use these categories for disorders with prominent anxiety symptoms that don’t fit neatly into any of the anxiety disorders
Other specified, or unspecified, anxiety disorder
These patients are bothered by repeated thoughts or behaviors that can appear senseless, even to them
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Specify degree of insight:
with good or fair insight
with poor insight
with absent insight/delusional beliefs
A severely traumatic event, such as combat or a natural disaster, is relived over and over
Posttraumatic stress disorder
This condition is much like PTSD, except that it begins during or immediately after the stressful event and lasts a month or less
Acute stress disorder
These timid people are so easily wounded by criticism that they hesitate to become involved with others
Avoidant personality disorder
Some patients with major depressive disorder have much accompanying tension and anxiety
Major depressive disorder with anxious distress
