Chapter 6- Panic, Anxiety, Obsessions and Their Disorders

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What percentage of the US population is affected by anxiety disorders?

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25-29% experience it at one point in their life or another. It’s the most common category of disorders for women and second for men.

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Anxiety

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A general feeling of apprehension about possible danger.

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder

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Anxiety disorder characterized by the persistent intrusion of unwanted and intrusive thoughts or distressing images; these are usually accompanied by compulsive behaviors designed to neutralize the obsessive thoughts or images to prevent some dreaded event or situation.

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Obsessions

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Persistent and recurrent intrusive thoughts, images or impulses that a person experiences as disturbing and inappropriate but has difficulties suppressing.

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Fear

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A basic lotion that involves the activation of the “fight or flight” response of the sympathetic nervous system.

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Neurotic disorders

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Psychodynamic term for anxiety driven mental health conditions that are manifest through avoidance patterns and defensive reactions.

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Panic attack

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A severe, intense fear response that appears to come out of the blue; it has many physical and cognitive symptoms such as fear of dying or losing control.

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Most Common Anxiety disorders

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Specific phobia
Social anxiety disorder
Panic disorder
Agoraphobia
Generalized anxiety disorders

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Anxiety disorder

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An unrealistic, irrational fear or anxiety of disabling intensity.

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Phobia

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Persistent and disproportionate fear of some specific object or situation that presents little or no actual danger.

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Specific phobia

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Persistent or disproportionate fears of various objects, places, or situation, such as fears of situations (airplanes or elevators), other species (snakes, spiders), or aspects of the environment (high places, water).

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Blood-injection-injury phobia

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Persistent and disproportionate fear of the sight of blood or injury, or the possibility of having an injection. Afflicted persons are likely to experience a drop in blood pressure and sometimes things.

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Prepared learning

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The view that people are biologically prepared through evolution and more readily acquire fears of certain objects or situations that may once have posed a threat to our early ancestors. For example, people more readily develop fears of snakes and spiders if they are paired with aversive events, then they develop fears of knives or guns.

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Exposure therapy

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A technique in psychological treatment of anxiety disorders that involves exposing the patient to the feared object or context without any danger in order to overcome the anxiety.

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Social phobia

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Fear of situations in which a person might be exposed to the scrutiny of others and fear of acting in a humiliating or embarrassing way.

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Panic disorder

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Occurrence of repeated unexpected panic attacks, often accompanied by intense anxiety about having another.

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Agoraphobia

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Fear of being in places or situations where a panic attack may occur in from which escape would be physically difficult or psychologically embarrassing, or in which immediate help would be unavailable in the event that some mishap occurred.

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Amygdala

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Part of the hippocampus. Involved in the regulation of emotion and is critically involved in the emotion of fear.

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Panic provocation procedures

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A variety of biological challenge procedures that provoke panic attacks at higher rates in people with panic disorder than in people without panic disorder.

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Interoceptive conditioning

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This term refers to a learning process that is similar to classical conditioning. There are two conditioned stimuli and one unconditioned response.

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Exteroceptive conditioning

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Modifying the perception of environmental stimuli acting on the body.

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Anxiety sensitivity

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A personality trait involving a high level of belief that certain bodily symptoms may have harmful consequences.

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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Chronic excessive worry about a number of events or activities, with no specific threat present, accompanied by at least three of the following symptoms: restlessness, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, sleep disturbance.

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Hoarding disorder

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A new DSM-5 diagnosis characterized by long-standing difficulties discarding possessions, even those of little value.

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Compulsions

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Overt repetitive behaviors (such as handwashing or checking) or more covert mental ask (such as counting, praying, saying certain words silently, or ordering) that a person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession.

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Exposure and response prevention

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A method of treatment for upsets and can post of disorder that combines intense exposure of the patient to feared conditions and then they are asked not to respond by engaging in their usual rituals to the feared stimuli.

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Body dysmorphic disorder

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Obsession with some perceived flaw or flaws in one’s appearance.

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Trichotillomania

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Chronic pulling out of one’s own hair.

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Taijin Kyofusho

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People with this disorder are concerned about doing something that will embarrass or offend others. This includes the fear of offending others by blushing, in emitting offensive odor, staring inappropriately into the eyes of another person, or through their perceived physical defects or imagined deformities.