Anxiety Disorders
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 define Normal anxiety | diffuse, unpleasant, vague sense of apprehension accompanied by autonomic symptoms |
| what is the purpose of normal anxiety? | alerting signal, warns of danger and allows person to take measure to deal with threat |
| normal anxiety is a response to a threat that is ...(4) | unknown, internal, vague, conflictual |
| Neurochemical model of anxiety: what causes anxiety and what are the THREE physical symptoms? | activation of autonomic nervous system, tachycardia, diarrhea, tachypnea |
| Neurochemical model of anxiety: what THREE neurotransmitters are involved in anxiety? | NE, 5-HT, GABA |
| Neurochemical model of anxiety: one does one induce a panic attack? (2) | administer NE, 5-HT releasers; GABA antagonists |
| Neurochemical model of anxiety: how do we know that GABA is involved? | high efficacy of benzodiazepine agents |
| genetic model of anxiety: 3 key facts | high rate of familial inheritance, greater in monozygotic than dizygotic twins, modeled or learned behavior |
| Behavioral model of anxiety: what is anxiety? | a conditioned response to a specific environmental stimuli |
| Panic Attack symptoms: 3 physical | sweating, trembling, chills/hot flush |
| Panic Attack symptoms: 5 system symptoms | palpitations/pounding heart, shortness of breath, choking feeling, chest pain, abdominal distress, Paresthesia (tingling sensation) |
| Panic Attack symptoms: 4 mental symptoms | feelings of unreality, fear of losing control/going crazy, fear of dying |
| define social phobia; what happens when a person is forced into or anticipates being in a social situation? | excessive/unreasonable fear/avoidance of social situations; situation endured with intense anxiety and stress (INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM A PANIC ATTACK) |
| specific phobia: how common? define? treatment? (2) | most common anxiety disorder, irrational/excessive fear of specific objects/situation, grader exposure or flooding |
| specific symptoms of PTSD (4) | intrusive symptoms, avoidance behavior, numbing, hyperarousal symptoms |
| specific symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) (8) | excessive anxiety and difficult to control worry, significant distress/impairment, difficulty concentrating, irritability, restlessness, muscle tension, fatigue |
| specific symptoms of OCD? (9) | checking, washing, repeating/counting, ordering/symmetry, hoarding, harming obsessions, religious/sexual rituals, primary obsessional slowness, pure obsessionals w/o action |
| what is it called when you refuse to go somewhere because you are afraid you will have a panic attack? | agorophobia |
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