Anxiety Disorders Flashcards
True or false: Some anxiety isn’t necessary for function.
False. It is necessary.
What is anxiety?
The internal feeling that results from conflict, frustration, usually experienced as unexplained anticipation of danger.
What’s the most common form of mental disorder?
Anxiety disorders.
Agoraphobia is…
A type of anxiety disorder related to fear.
How much more often do women have anxiety disorders than men?
Twice as frequently.
True or false: Three times as many women have panic disorder with agoraphobia than men.
True.
What are examples of behavioral etiological factors?
Classic stimulus response.
Social learning through observation.
What are traumatic life event etiological factors?
Actual threat, loss, change.
Is a panic attack cod able by itself?
No. Only in the presence of a panic disorder.
Unexpected (uncued) panic attack.
May occur without any obvious external trigger.
Situationally bound (cued) panic attack
May occur immediately after exposure to a situation or in anticipation of exposure to the trigger.
Panic disorder without agoraphobia
Presence of recurrent, unexpected panic attacks without agoraphobia.
Panic disorder with agoraphobia
Presence of recurrent, unexpected panic attacks with agoraphobia.
Stage fright falls under what anxiety disorder?
Social phobia
PTSD
Occurrence of an event where there was an actual threat of death or injury and as a result the individual experienced feelings of intense fear, helplessness or horror.