HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Anxiety Disorder, Mental Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
31 Jan 2018
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Fear vs anxiety: fear: response to real & present danger. Classification of anxiety disorders: emerged as distinct group of disorders in dsm-iii, previously part of neuroses (emotional disturbance, w/awareness, awareness dropped in the dsm-5. Now merely necessary for fear& worry to be. Disproportionate to the situation who judges that: could be biased, splitting movement has divided anxiety disorders. share core symptom- intense worry disproportionate to actual environment 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. in the early 20th century, freud work begins and starts to cover neuroses. this becomes the age of anxiety. Specific (simple) phobia: persistent, excessive, narrowly defines fears associated with specific object or situation, phobias are irrational or unreasonable , must always occur when exposed to source, daily life consumed on some level with avoidance, fear and dread.
