HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Panic Attack
4 Oct 2016
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Helps organize responses to threat, like ght or ight. Responsive, you have a threat it is a dangerous thing, you respond to it. Future things that will or will not happen. Is not about the given moment, its the sense that in the future bad things are going to happen. Physiological changes, people begin to sweat, tremble, pulse will race, feel it in your heart. Dif cult to control thoughts in state of anxiety. Hard to stop thinking about the thing that it causing the anxiety. May not seem reasonable to logical to other people. Halo effect: surrounds you and changes your perception of things. Colours how you think about the future, past and how you understand yourself. Is not bad, have a tendency to think it is an inherently negative thing. Anxiety is often good for us, you want to have some anxiety because it propels you into action. It can become problematic when theirs no exceptionality.
