Module 66 - Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Question 1

Anxiety disorders

Answer 1

Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety

Question 2

Social anxiety disorder

Answer 2

Intense fear and avoidance of social situations

Question 3

Generalized anxiety disorder

Answer 3

A disorder in which a person is unexplainably and continually tense and uneasy

Question 4

Panic disorder

Answer 4

A disorder in which a person experiences panic attacks and fears the next episode’s unpredictable onset

Question 5

Panic attacks

Answer 5

Sudden episodes of intense dread

Question 6

Agoraphobia

Answer 6

Fear or avoidance of situations, such as crowds or wide open places, where one has felt a loss of control and panic

Question 7

Phobias

Answer 7

An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation

Question 8

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

Answer 8

A disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions), actions (compulsions), or both

Question 9

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Answer 9

A disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, hypervigilance, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience