PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gamble-Skogmo, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Venlafaxine

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Andrea Ashbaugh

Document Summary

Panic = the physiological response that mobilizes your body to get away - ght or ight. Ocd and ptsd used to be part of these but they have been moved to their own sections. Comorbidity: 76% of people with an anxiety disorder will have at least one other disorder in their lifetime, very common, 13 -20% of the population. Emotional distress: fear and anxiety about a speci c object, irrational, avoidance. Natural environment : storms, thunder, lightening, may spend a lot of times checking the weather report. Blood-injection-injury: tend to faint, big drop in their blood pressure, seems to run in families. panic response not usually accompanied with fainting, idea that body is conserving its own blood. Women may have heightened fears of dangerous behaviours because evolutionarily they protected the children while men had to go out and get food. Likely a combination of biological underpinnings and in the media women are seen to be more scared.