HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Panic Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Palpitations
14 Jan 2019
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Fear: fear is response to real and present danger, helps organize responses to threat like fight (the problem) or flight (escaping) Halo effect: a continuous loop in which how you see the past, present and future and everything else changes: something everyone experiences, some helpful uses up to a point. Classification of anxiety disorder: emerged as distinct group of disorders in dsm-iii, previously part of neuroses (emotional disturbance with awareness, awareness dropped in dsm-5. Empowered the clinician to make that decision: splitting movement has divided anxiety disorders. Share core symptom- intense worry disproportionate to actual environmental danger. Rise of interest in anxiety: asylums primarily housed psychotic individuals and those deemed too dangerous to remain in community. Anxiety didn"t really fit into the equation: freud"s emphasis on neuroses helped reshape 20th century as the age of anxiety. Panic disorder: characterized by recurrent, unexpected panic attacks, similar to a heart attack. Usually occurs without warning and finishes within ten minutes.
