week 6.1 Flashcards
anxiety
Physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral symptoms
Response to threat
Subject of response to stressor
Fear
reaction to specific danger
Immediate
mild level of anxiety
Normal experience of every day living
* motivation
Heightened perceptual field
aware of anxiety
moderate level of anxiety
Narrowed perceptual field
Focuses on source of anxiety
Can still follow directions
sx: tremor, sweating, HA
severe level of anxiety
dazed, confused
distorted perceptual field
attention scattered
Behavior focused on decreasing or relieve anxiety
Panic level of anxiety
Unable to process environment
Focus is lost
Severe hyperactivity
running screaming, and shouting
Terror
sublimation
Transforming negative impulses to a more productive focus
intellectualization
Analyzing facts without emotion
“He wouldn’t have wanted to live with a disability”
generalized anxiety disorder
Greater than or equal to six months
Excessive, persistent worry
What is the treatment of choice to manage acute anxiety?
Benzos
what is the treatment of choice if the patient is sensitive to SSRIs?
Buspirone
Benzo administration teaching
Monitor sedative/injury
Avoid caffeine and alcohol
Take with food
High addiction potential
Don’t handle machinery
Teratogenic
Antidote – flumazenil
systemic desensitization
Gradually introduced to the feared object thru steps
flooding
Exposed to large amount of undesirable stimulus to extinguish anxiety
Phobias
persistent, irrational fear of specific object, activity, or situation that leads to avoidance
Out of proportion to actual danger
agoraphobia
Most of your excessive anxiety about being in places or situations with escape might be difficult
what types of situations are often avoided with agoraphobia?
Being alone
Traveling
Bridges
Elevators
Social anxiety disorder
fear provoked by exposure to a social or performance situation evaluated potentially negative by others
Fear of criticism, humiliation, or embarrassment
Fear of public speaking
symptoms of panic disorder
Chest pain
Shortness breath
Palpitations
Choking feeling
Lightheadedness
Dizzy
Anticipatory anxiety
fearful expectation of panic onset
avoidance anxiety
Decreases risk of anxiety by increasing feeling of control
emergency care with panic disorder
Rule out medical crisis
obsessions
Unwanted, intrusive, persistent thoughts
Impulses cannot be dismissed from the mind
Compulsions
behaviors performed repeatedly and goal to relieve anxiety and distress
Interferes with daily life
What are examples of compulsions?
Handwashing
Locking doors
Brushing hair
body dysmorphic disorder
Preoccupation with one or more perceived defects /flaws in physical appearance
Not observed by others
12 to 13-year-old onset
Hoarding disorder
persistent difficulties, guarding possessions, regardless of value
Safety is priority
Increase severity with each decade
Trichotillomania
Hair pulling disorder
Decrease anxiety by inducing pain by hair pulling
excoriation disorder
Skin picking Recurrent until skin lesions
Rubbing, biting, squeezing, scratching
