Chapter 6 Flashcards
What are obsessions?
An idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a persons mind
Why is it difficult to define anxiety
Anticipation and apprehension are often used to describe anxiety responses
Biological, psychological, environmental events promote anxiety
Avoidance-defensive behaviours are developed and are maladaptive
What are compulsions?
An irresistible urge to behave in a certain way, especially against ones conscious wishes
What is an alter and a host when referring to DID?
The host is the trunk or main personality, the alters are the branches or different characteristics to protect the host.
Alters: Opposite sex, child, persecutor, and protector. They dress and behave the part.
What is the main aim of treatment for DID?
Therapy that will help merge the alters with the host
What is the controversy surrounding DID?
A lot of people fake that they have it after committing a crime
Causal factors for DID
Trauma/stressor with a personality that can dissociate easily
Abuse, neglect
Blood injection injury phobia
Fear of blood, needles, injuries
Initial heart acceleration, drop in rate and pressure
Nausea, dizziness, fainting
Adolescence and young adults
Treatment: controlled exposure, modelling
Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)
In a constant state of worry with little or no relief
Caused by excess GABA neurotransmitter
Specific social phobia
Fear of public speaking. Underlying fear of negative evaluation by others
Generalised social phobia
Fear of interacting with others socially. Underlying fear of negative evaluation.
Anxious, self conscious, afraid of judgement, avoidant, hard time making or keeping friends
Panic disorder with and without agoraphobia
Brevity and intensity of reaction. Onset 15-24 years old. Twice as common in females.
Agoraphobia: fear of being in a public area without being able to escape
Shortness of breath, palpitations, sweating, dizziness
Medications: benzodiazepines/ anxiolytics, antidepressants
Obsessive compulsive disorder OCD
The persistent occurrence of unwanted and intrusive obsessive thoughts or distressing images usually followed by compulsive behaviour
Gradual onset and chronic once it becomes serious. All ages. Anxiety make the behaviour exist.
Types of thoughts: fear of contamination, self harm, harming others, pathological doubt
Types of compulsions: cleaning, checking, repeating, ordering, counting
Body dysmorphic disorder
A constant worry/ obsession with a physical flaw that might not even exist.
Obsessions: wrinkles, hair, size/shape of eyes nose or breasts.
