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Panic, Anxiety & Their Disorders Flashcards

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Anxiety

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Complex
Normal reaction to stress
Helps deal/prepare for tense situation
Excessive= disorder

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Fear

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Basic emotion enabling a quick response when faced with imminent threat

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5 major types of anxiety disorders

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Generalised anxiety disorder
OCD
Panic disorder
PTSD
Social phobia
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Treatment for anxiety disorders

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Medication
Psychotherapy
One, other or both

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Treatment of phobia

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Just psychotherapy

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Medications to treat anxiety

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SSRIs
Tricyclics
MAOIs
Benzodiazepines

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Types if psychotherapy

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Change thinking patterns
Cognitive behavioural therapy (good for panic disorder/social phobia)
Teach how to reinterpret symptoms- as anxiety not heart attack

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Describe the behavioural component of CBT

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Change peoples reaction to anxiety provoking situations
Key = exposure
Confront things they fear

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Describe Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

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Chronic or excessive worry
Heritable
Runs in families

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What NTs play a role in GAD?

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GABA

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Causes of GAD:

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Conflict between id & ego
Life experiences- a lot of stress/uncontrollable events/unpleasant events
Info processing: If anxious, tuned to monitoring danger/ frightening things

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Phobia

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

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3 types if phobia

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Acrophobia

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Heights

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Incidence of blood injection injury phobia

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3-4%

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Incidence of phobias in men & women

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Women 16%

Men 7%

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Causes of phobias

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Traumatic conditioning of fear
Genetic & temperamental factors effect speed & strength of fear response
Evolutionary preparedness

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Evolutionary preparedness

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Easier to develop fears for some things than others (eg snakes easier than flowers- almost impossible)

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Treating phobias

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Exposure
Gradually
Establishes a response hierarchy
Systematic desensitisation

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Systemic desensitisation

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Start with picture, move up hierarchy until they are no longer afraid. Exposure- never avoid. Go through steps, learn it’s not as bad as you think.

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Different phobia treatments:

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Participant modelling

Virtual reality therapy

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Social phobia

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Disabling fears of 1 or more discrete social situations in which he/she may be exposed to the scrutiny & potential negative evaluations of others

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Treatment for social phobias

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Behavioural therapy (exposure)
Cognitive behavioural therapy
Medications

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Panic disorder

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Unexpected panic attacks
Out of the blue 
Unexpected & repeated episodes of intense fear 
Chest pain, palpitations, breath, dizzy 
(mimic symptoms if heart attack)
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Agoraphobia

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Fear of going outside
Can happen in panic disorders
Fear if going somewhere whee they had a panic attack

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Causes if panic disorder

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Hereditary

……..

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What % of adults have had PD in their life?

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NTs involved in PD

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Treatment of PD

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Help them interpret symptoms as anxiety not heart problems.
CBT
Medication
Can reduce by 70%

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OCD

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Occurrence of unwanted & intrusive obsessive thoughts or distressing images
Usually accompanied by compulsive behaviours to neutralise obsessive thoughts/images
Prevents dreaded event/situation

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OCD prevalence in men & women?

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Causes if OCD (psychosocial):

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Obsessions with dirt have evolutionary roots
Take away fear= v rewarding (eg hand washing)
Attempting to suppress unwanted thoughts- increases those thoughts

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Biological causal factors for OCD:

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Hereditary
NTs
…..

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OCD treatment

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Behavioral treatment
Exposure
…..
Keep hands dirty- won’t die!

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Mood disorders

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Disturbances of mood that are INTENSE and PERSISTENT

Maladaptive

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Unipolar disorders

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Bipolar

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Switch from manic to depressed

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Which is more common uni/bipolar?

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Symptoms if depressing

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Insomnia
Poor appetite
Inability to concentrate/enjoy 
Fatigue
Thoughts if death/suicide
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Symptoms of mania

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Abnormal/excessive elation
Unusual irritability 
⬇️ need for sleep
Racing thoughts
⬆️ sex drive
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2 common causes of depression

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Loss/grieving process

Postnatal depression

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2 mild categories of depression:

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Adjustment disorder with depressed mood (eg new job/country)

Dysthymia

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Biological causal factors of unipolar disorder

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Genetic
NTs
Cortisol
Pleasure centre of brain

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Psychosocial causes if depression:

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Life experiences

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Hopelessness theory

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Proposes pessimistic attributional style is a predisposition for depression

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