HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Diazepam
18 Oct 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Chronic worriers not fixed, may not even have clear source: not fixed on specific object, situation or reduce panic attacks, for example. Accompanied by minor disturbances in sleep, irritability, concentration, restlessness. Chronic, low-key, long lasting. (not situational or temporary) Gad is a difficult diagnosis to work with. (difference is not exactly clear or meaningful) Disturbances in sleep/concentration same symptoms for depression disorder. Evolutionary: anxiety and phobias adaptive in some situations, out of place in modern world: some behaviours that we now call disorders may have been adaptive (kept us alive; benefit for some people) 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. Avoidance rewards person. (mental illness is learned behaviour) Life events (milestones that a person may have in their life): people who experience agoraphobia more likely to have faced dangerous situations, like crime, conflict, serious arguments.
