Lecture 28- Disorders, Anxiety

Question 1

What are the 5 factors to help define a disorder? (IDDDD)

Answer 1

1. Infrequency
2. Deviance
3. Distress
4. Disability
5. Danger

Question 2

What are the 3 components of a disorder?

Answer 2

1. a psychological factor
2. distress or impairment
3. atypical response

Question 3

How do we classify disorder?

Answer 3

through the use of the DSM-5-TR model, which allows us to have a guess at how things fit together

Question 4

What percentage of people struggle with anxiety?

Answer 4

28%, making it one of the most common disorders

Question 5

What factors of the disability criteria does anxiety associate with?

Answer 5

1. distress
2. disability
3. danger

Question 6

What are the costs of anxiety?

Answer 6

• distress
• impacts on physical health
• social and occupational functioning

Question 7

What is anxiety?

Answer 7

Anxiety is the thoughts, feelings, sensations you experience about something that is going to happen in the future, we are anticipating that there is going to be a threat to our system and that we are not going to be able to cope in a particular situation
- future focused
- an anticipated threat

Question 8

What is fear or panic?

Answer 8

• present focused
• an immediate threat
• automatic

Question 9

What are the cognitive components of anxiety?

Answer 9

• thoughts
• worries

Question 10

What are the physiological components of anxiety?

Answer 10

• heart (racing)
• stomach (slowed digestion)
• sweating

Question 11

What are the behavioural components of anxiety?

Answer 11

• avoidance

Question 12

What is the fight or flight response?

Answer 12

this is an automatic response to a threat and happens in the sympathetic nervous system, which results in heart racing and slowed digestion, which would be helpful in past generations danger but less helpful in the current context

Question 13

What are the causes of an anxiety disorder?

Answer 13

• learning process (do not give yourself the opportunity to learn about danger, focus on what others are anxious about)
• cognitive (what thoughts we grab onto)
• genetics
• neurobiology (how our brains are wired)
• personality and temperament

Question 14

What is Separation Anxiety?

Answer 14

fear caused by the idea or event of being separated from a certain place or attachment figure

Question 15

What is Generalisation Anxiety Disorder?

Answer 15

a continuous feeling or worry or anxiety, people feel as if they have no control and are often worried about multiple things

Question 16

What is Panic Disorder?

Answer 16

is random onset periods of intense fear in the absence of real danger, people have no warning as there is no stimulus they are responding too

Question 17

What is agoraphobia?

Answer 17

fear of public or large open spaces, and being in large groups, people often fear that they will get stuck and have no help if they started to panic

Question 18

What is social anxiety disorder?

Answer 18

fear towards social situations and interacting with people, worry about how they may be perceived, so tend to avoid doing anything that could cause an negative perception and often avoid social situations

Question 19

What is specific phobias?

Answer 19

anxiety evoked by specific stimuli or situations, often causes people to avoid these, and constant fear as avoidance is out of their control