Anxiety, Trauma, Stressor, OC and Related Disorders

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Mood state characterized by marked negative affect and bodily symptoms of tension in which a person apprehensively anticipates future danger or misfortune. Anxiety may involve feelings, behaviors, and physiological responses.

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anxiety

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Emotion of an immediate alarm reaction to present danger or life-threatening emergencies.

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fear

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Sudden, overwhelming fright or terror.

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panic

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Abrupt experience of intense fear or discomfort accompanied by a number of physical symptoms, such as dizziness or heart palpitations.

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panic attack

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Brain circuit in the limbic system that responds to threat signals by inhibiting activity and causing anxiety.

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behavioral inhibition system (BIS)

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Brain circuit in animals that when stimulated causes an immediate alarm and escape response resembling human panic.

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fight/flight system (FFS)

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Anxiety disorder characterized by intense, uncontrollable, unfocused, chronic, and continuous worry that is distressing and unproductive, accompanied by physical symptoms of tenseness, irritability, and restlessness.

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generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

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Recurrent unexpected panic attacks accompanied by concern about future attacks and/or a lifestyle change to avoid future attacks.

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panic disorder (PD)

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Anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult in the event of panic symptoms or other unpleasant physical symptoms (e.g., incontinence).

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agoraphobia

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Cognitive-behavioral treatment for panic attacks, involving gradual exposure to feared somatic sensations and modification of perceptions and attitudes about them.

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panic control treatment (PCT)

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Unreasonable fear of a specific object or situation that markedly interferes with daily life functioning.

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specific phobia

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Unreasonable fear and avoidance of exposure to blood, injury, or the possibility of an injection. Victims experience fainting and a drop in blood pressure.

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blood–injection–injury phobia

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Anxiety involving enclosed places (for example, claustrophobia) or public transportation (for example, fear of flying).

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situational phobia

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Fear of situations or events in nature, especially heights, storms, and water.

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natural environment phobia

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Unreasonable, enduring fear of animals or insects that usually develops early in life.

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animal phobia

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Excessive, enduring fear in some individuals that harm will come to them or their loved ones when they are apart.

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separation anxiety disorder

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Extreme, enduring, irrational fear and avoidance of social or performance situations.

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social anxiety disorder (SAD) (also called social

phobia)

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Enduring, distressing emotional disorder that follows exposure to severe helplessness or a fear-inducing threat. The victim reexperiences the trauma, avoids stimuli associated with it, and develops a numbing of responsiveness and an increased vigilance and arousal.

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posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

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Severe reaction immediately following a terrifying event, often including amnesia about the event, emotional numbing, and derealization. If symptoms persist beyond one month, victims are diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder.

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acute stress disorder

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Clinically significant emotional and behavioral symptoms in response to one or more specific stressors.

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adjustment disorders

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Developmentally inappropriate behaviors in which a child is unable or unwilling to form normal attachment relationships with caregiving adults.

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attachment disorders

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Attachment disorder in which a child with disturbed behavior neither seeks out a caregiver nor responds to offers of help from one; fearfulness and sadness are often evident.

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reactive attachment disorder

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Condition in which a child shows no inhibitions whatsoever in approaching adults.

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disinhibited social engagement disorder

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Disorder involving unwanted, persistent, intrusive thoughts and impulses, as well as repetitive actions intended to suppress them.

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obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

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Recurrent intrusive thoughts or impulses the client seeks to suppress or neutralize while recognizing they are not imposed by outside forces.

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obsessions

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Repetitive, ritualistic, time-consuming behaviors or mental acts a person feels driven to perform to suppress obsessions.

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compulsions

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Disorder featuring a disruptive preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance (“imagined ugliness”). Now classified among obsessive-compulsive and related disorders; previously grouped with DSM-IV somatoform disorders.

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body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)

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People’s urge to pull out their own hair from anywhere on the body, including the scalp, eyebrows, and arm.

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trichotillomania

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Recurrent, difficult-to-control picking of one’s skin leading to significant impairment or distress.

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excoriation