L7 Anxiety Disorders: Clinical Picture

Question 1

Adjustment Disorder

• what is it?
• duration

Answer 1

Wide range of emotional or behavioural symptoms

Stressor not necessarily life threatening
Out of proportion to stressor

Lasts up to 6 months

Question 2

What is PTSD?

Answer 2

exceptionally threatening or catastrophic event

response to intense fear

Question 3

Symptoms of PTSD

Answer 3

Re-experiencing flashbacks/nightmares

Numbness/detachment

Avoidance

Hypervigilance/startle

Insomnia

Anxiety/depression

Question 4

panic

differential dx

Answer 4

Endocrine-Hypoglycaemia, Phaeocromocytoma
Carcinoid

Cardiovascular-
Arrythmia

Respiratory-Asthma

Drugs

Neurological
Seizures, Vestibular