PSYC 526 Lecture Notes - Twin, Eugen Bleuler, Psychoactive Drug

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Chapter 17 the nature and causes of mental disorders. Often referred to as neuroses, anxiety, somatoform, and dissociative mental disorders are strategies of perception and behaviour that have gotten out of hand. People who have neuroses experience anxiety, fear, and depression, and generally are unhappy. However, unlike people who have psychoses, they do not suffer from delusions or severely disordered thought processes and hey almost universally realize that they have a problem. Fear and anxiety are the most prominent symptoms. Anxiety is a sense of apprehension or doom that is accompanied by certain physiological reactions (e. g. accelerated heart rate, sweaty palms, and tightness in the stomach: panic disorder: description. Panic is a feeling of extreme fear mixed with hopelessness or helplessness. People with panic disorder suffer from episodic attacks of acute anxiety periods of acute and unremitting terror that grip them for lengths of time lasting from a few seconds to a few hours.

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