HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
30 Sep 2016
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Dif cult diagnoses, hard to see the difference between someone who worries more than others and someone with gad. Low diagnostic reliability- odds of multiple physicians agreeing on one diagnosis. Expectations of women, or socialization to worry more, burden of stress on women. Explanations: evolutionary: anxiety and phobias adaptive in some situations, out of place in modern world. The environment does not require these phobias/avoidances: freud: anxiety a warning sign about id"s impulses. We get anxious when we are about to do something we shouldn"t do . The id wants to gratify some sort of urge that the superego does not agree with: behavioural: learned behaviour acquired through conditioning and reinforcement. The thing they are avoiding is uncomfortable, and if they avoid it they do not experience this: life events: people who experience agoraphobia more likely to have faced. Wednesday, september 28, 2016: genetics may play role; inherit proclivity to panic vs. experiencing generalized anxiety distinctly.
