HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Panic Attack, Panic Disorder, Venomous Snake
4 Oct 2016
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Chronic worriers - not xed, may not even have clear source. Not xed on a certain object or situation like phobias or social anxiety, it is to describe someone with chronic worry. Accompanied by minor disturbances in sleep, irritability, concentration, restlessness. Not situational, mot temporary, its a makeup of a persons character. Q: why is it a disease rather than a variation of normality. e. g. spectrum of sexuality, a spectrum of anxiety. A lot of commentators, gad is a dif cult diagnosis to work with because its hard for them to part someone who has gad and someone who just worries a lot. If you present someone in front of a number of physicians the odds of them agreeing on a diagnosis is low. Compared to ocd where there would be more consensus and agreement of what the diagnosis is, it says that is hard for practitioners to work out whether someone had gad or does not.
