Stress-Related Disorders and Anxiety Disorders Flashcards
What characterizes stress and anxiety disorders within the nervous system
Elevated levels of AROUSEL and ANXIETY
What are the symptoms of mood disorders and why are they different than stress and anxiety disorders
They show more depressed levels but the are most commonly co-diagnosised
What will diagnosis look at
Biological SYMPTOMS with the enviromental CONTEXT and its STRESSORS
What is the Hans Selys’s General Adaptation Syndrome
Alarm-resistance-exhaustion
What is the abnormalities anxiety shows within the hand selys’s general adaptation syndrome
Excessive biological response or exhaustion
What is the nature of the stressor
Good/bad and short/long term
What is maladaptive coping
Doing nothing about the problem. Ex. drugs, alcohol
What are the two types of focused coping that you have to balance
Emotion and problem
What is PTSD
A long-term negative reaction to a traumatic event
What are some other names of PTSD
shell shock, battle fatigue, combat exhaustion
Is PTSD tied only to military action
No
What are triggering events
Life-threatening with a felling of being trapped and POWERLESS
Did the DSM-5 expand PTSD to people who did not directly experience the event
Yes
What is the stressor of PTSD
Event, exposure
Who are some workers that can get PTSD
First responders, people who hear about child abuse
What are the intrusion symptoms of PTSD
The event is re-experienced through memories, nightmare, dissociative reactions, distress after reminders
What is avoidance in PTSD
Persistent efforful avoidance
What are some of the alterations in cognitions and mood with PTSD
Negative alerations in cognitions and mood. Dissociative amnesia, the world is bad, diminished interest, can’t be happy
What alterations in arousal and reactivity with PTSD
On edge, sleep disterbances, irritable, reckless, exaggerated starle response
What are the challenges surrounding PTSD diagnosising
Fear of being seen as WEAK, ROLES, underminig of CAREER, lack of SUPPORT, SKEPTICAL
Who is at risk for PTSD from the pandemic
Healthcare WORKERS, SURVIVORS
What is characterized by abnormal levels of arousal, tensions, fear or a sense of coming toruble
Anxiety disorders
Can the symptoms of anxiety disorders be physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavior
Yes
What did anxiety disorders use to be classified as
Neuroses, included other non-anxiety disorders
Why are women more likely to have anxiety disorders
Makes men look WEAK, DEMANDS of domestic labor
What is a panic disorder
RECURRING experiences of intense PANIC, with no obvious TRIGGER or casue
What are the symptoms of a panic disorder
HEART rate, SHORTness of BREATHE, sweating, dizzy
What are some feeling associated with panic attacks
Losing CONTROL or DYING
What is an uncued panic attack
Out of the blue
What is a situationaly bound panic attack
TIED with a specific, known trigger
What is the DSM criterion for panic disorders
CONCERN anout another attack, WORRY about what the attack will do, change in BEHAVIOR
How many americans are affected by panic disorders
1-4%
What are the biological factors of panic disorders
SUFFOCATION false alarm theory (dispropportionate response to low stimui), low levels of GABA
What do antianxiety drugs do
Raise GABA
Are panic attacks a cycle
Yes
What is a phobic disorder
Irrational FEAR that is disproportionate
When is a phobic disorder a problem
When is AFFECTS your life
Which type of phobias have an earlier onset
Spefific
Which type of phobias have a later onset
SOCIAL and agoraphobia
What is a specific phobia
An irrational fear of a specific object or situation
What is social phobia
Social anxiety disorderm fear of SOCIAL interactions, fear of JEDGEMENT
What is agoraphobia
Fear of a situation that is our of proportion, fear of being in an UNSAFE PLACE
Does agoraphobia have a cycle
Yes because you feel better when you stay inside
What does agoraphobia settle in
28 years old
What is body dysmorphic, hoarding, trichotillomania and excoriation disorder catorgerized into
Obessive-compulsive disorders
What are obsessions in the DSM
PERSISTANT thoughts, INTRUSIVE, they try to SUPPRESS or NEUTRALIZE the thoughts
What is compulsion in the DSM
Repetitve behaviors to PREVENT or REDUCE distress
When is OCD an issue
When it’s TIME consuming and interferes with the person’s life
How many people of OCD
2-3%
What oculd possibly be wrong with the amygdala with people that have OCD
feedback issues
What is the psychodynamic perspective on anxiety
UNCOUNSCIOUS fears
What is the treatment for the psychodynamic perspective of anxiety
Free the ego from the unconscious
What is the learning perspective with OCD and anxiety
Two-factor model (mowrer)
What is the two-factor model
Bad ASSOCIATION then agoraphobic behavior is REINFORCED
What are the two traetment options for the learning perspective related to anxiety and OCD
Systematic densensitvation and floodin
What does the cognitive perspective think about anxiety
Maladaptive conitions: overprediction, exaggeration, oversensitivity, low self-efficacy
What does cognitive restructuring do
Change self-defeating thoughts with coping thoughts
What is prolonged exposure therapy
A form of CBT used for treatment of PTSD, can be imaginal or in vivo
What are some cognitive treatments for anxiety and OCD
Virtual reality, breathing training, response prevention (OCD, nothing bad happens if you don’t do it), Social skills training
What are the biologicla treatments
Anti-anexty drugs
What drugs do they use for right after a traumatic event
Beta-blockers (propranolo)
