HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anxiety Disorder, Upper Middle Class, Panic Disorder
19 Dec 2016
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Fear: response to real & present danger. Helps organize responses to threat , like fight or flight : ready to take on the thing or energy to run. Anxiety: apprehension about anticipated events: physiological changes. Difficult to control thoughts in state of anxiety. Hard to stop thinking of that thing that is causing them anxiety. Idea that it surrounds you and changes your perception. How you look at future/understand past and present. Powerful: some positives uses up to a point. Summons energy and motivation: when it becomes problematic. When it is not sparked by a future thing you need to deal with. Emerged as distinct group of disorders in dsm-iii: in 1980 split up anxiety and depressive orders into separate things, previously part of neuroses (emotional disturbance, where person had awareness) Now merely necessary for fear &worry to be :disproportionate to the situation who judges that: splitting movement has divided anxiety disorders.
