HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Panic Disorder, Thunderstorm, Aisle
6 Aug 2018
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Fear vs. anxiety: fear: response to real and present danger. Classification of anxiety disorders: emerged as a distinct group of disorders in dsm-3, before they were grouped as the neuroses (emotional disturbance, with awareness, awareness dropped in dsm-5. Now merely necessary for fear and worry to be disproportionate to the situation who judges that: splitting movement has been divided anxiety disorders. Share core symptom intense worry disproportionate to action environmental danger. Rise of interest in anxiety: asylums primarily housed psychotic individuals and those deemed too dangerous to remain in community. Anxiety didn"t really fit into that equation: freud"s emphasis on neuroses helped reshape 20th century as the age of anxiety. Panic disorder: characterized by recurrent, unexpected panic attacks similar to a heart attack. Agoraphobia: extreme fear about situations where escape is difficult or embarrassing (crowded shops, theatres, tunnels, unlike other phobias, not closeness to a specific object but distance from safety that"s the problem.
