HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attack, Panic Disorder
26 Nov 2017
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In the moment, occurs when faced w/ threat or danger. Anticipation of potentially bad future events happening to us. Difficult to control thoughts happening outside of your will power. Halo effect colours the way we understand many things. Can alter and shape how we understand ourselves. Harmful to imagine anxiety in a negative way we don"t need to ger rid of it entirely. Anxiety helps to fuel us to take action about certain things (tests, marriage, etc). When anxiety becomes so overpowering that the person is doing nothing negative aspect. Classification of anxiety disorders: emerged as distinct group of disorders in dsm-iii (1980, previously part of neuroses (emoti0onal disturbance w/ awareness), awareness dropped in dsm-5. Necessary for fear and worry to be disproportionate to the situation . Judgment made by physician, social worker, etc. Some may not see the fear as proportional to the threat: splitting movement has divided anxiety disorders.
