HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Lowkey, Medical Model
5 Nov 2016
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Chronic worriers not fixed, may not even have clear source. Accompanied by minor disturbances in sleep, irritability, concentration, restlessness. Difficult to diagnose: hard to distinguish between a person who has gad and just a. Controversial: lower diagnostic reliability, far more common in women. The same symptoms can be observed in different mental disorders (i. e. depression or gad) Evolutionary: anxiety and phobias adaptive in some situations, out of place in modern world: some anxiety and phobias may have kept us alive many years ago (fear of spiders, could have kept you away from venom) 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. Life events: people who experience agoraphobia more likely to have faced dangerous situations, like crime, conflict, serious arguments.
