HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia
19 Dec 2016
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Chronic worriers - not fixed, may not even have clear source: broad, and filters through many parts of their lives, doesn"t necessarily generate panic attacks, accompanied by minor disturbances in sleep, irritability, concentration, restlessness. Says that its hard for doctors for someone who had gad. Social- expectations of women so we read their actions in a certain way- expect them to be worry. Same symptoms you would see in major depression. Evolutionary: anxiety and phobias adaptive in some situations, out of place in modern world: some behaviours that we now call disorders would have been adapted. Scared of spiders (would of protected you from poisonous spiders) People haven"t changed, but the environment has. Freud: anxiety a warning sign about id"s impulses. We get anxious when we"re about to do something we shouldn"t do : id and ed mediated by superego. Behavioural: learned behaviours acquired through conditioning and reinforcement. Avoidance rewards person: rewarded by not feeling discomfort or pain.
