POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attack

• School: Emory University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Reinhardt Eric

Document Summary

If you can habituate, then anxiety will eventually decrease with time. If you cannot habituate, then anxiety just continues increasing. Women twice as likely as men to have an anxiety disorder. Marked and disproportionate fear consistently triggered by specific objects or situations. The object or situation is avoided or else endured with intense anxiety. High comorbidity of specific phobias (people with one type of phobia may also have other types of phobias) Most specific phobias cluster around a few feared objects and situations. Persistent, intense fear and avoidance of social situations. Marked and disproportionate fear consistently triggered by exposure to potential social scrutiny. Exposure to the trigger leads to intense anxiety about being evaluated negatively. Trigger situations are avoided or else endured with intense anxiety. Sudden, intense episode of apprehension, terror, feelings of impending doom. Young (18-29 years), undereducated, single, low ses = 13. 6%