HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
29 Sep 2016
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Chronic worriers - not xed, may not even have clear source. Not xed on speci c object or situation or produce panic attacks. Accompanied by minor disturbances in sleep, irritability, concentration, restlessness. Dif cult to work with as hard to establish difference between worry wart and gad - not clear. Far more common in women (roles? stereotypes?) Rates of having depression and generalized anxiety disorder are high. Evolutionary: anxiety and phobias adaptive in some situations, out of place in modern world. In early human societies, some phobias would have been adaptive (gave bene t, kept alive) Freud: anxiety a warning sign about id"s impulses. We get anxious when we"re about to do something we shouldn"t do . Behavioural: learned behaviours acquired through conditioning and reinforcement. Mental illness learned behaviour, bad experience = thing is harmful and avoid it. Life events: people who experience agoraphobia more likely to have faced dangerous situations, like crime, con ict, serious arguments.
