Anxiety - related Disorders

Question 1

how do generalised anxiety disorder, panic and specific phobias differ?

Answer 1

Anxiety disorder

Distress, persistent anxiety or dysfunctional anxiety-reducing behaviours

generalised
- continuously tense and uneasy
- autonomic nervous system arousal leak out (trembling, fidgeting, perspiration, twitching eyelids)
- free floating (not linked to a specific stressor)
-mellow at 50 and becomes rare

panic Disorder
- experience of panic attacks
- sudden intense dread
- fear of the next attack
- higher chance of developing agoraphobia (fear of avoidance of public situations)

specific phobia
- intensely and irrationally afraid of something

Question 2

What is OCD?

Answer 2

obessive thoughts

complusive behaviour in respoce to thoughts

other OCD related disorders
- Hoarding (Cant part ways with object)
- Body dysmorphic disorder (perceived body defect)
- Trichotillomania (hair pulling)

Question 3

what is PTSD?

Answer 3

• Hunting memories
• Hypervigilance
• Avoidance of trauma-related stimuli
• social withdrawal
• Jumpy anxiety
• numbness of feeling
• Insomia

surviour resiliency - recovery after server stress

post traumatic growth

Question 4

What are somatic symptoms and related disorders?

Answer 4

Symptoms take a somatic (bodily form without apparent physical cause

related
illness anxiety disorder (previously called Hypochondriasis)
- normal sensation as a dreaded disease

Question 5

how do conditioning, cognition and biolological contribute to the feeling and thoughts that mark anxiety?

Answer 5

classical condition
- fear and response become linked.
- stimulus generalisation,
fearful behaviour
reinforcement
observational learning of other and cognition ,

biological
- genetic predisposition for high level of emotional reactivity and neurotransmitter production