HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anxiety Disorder, Neurosis, Shortness Of Breath
30 Jan 2020
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Fear: is about a danger that is present that a person faces at the moment. It helps organize responses to threat like fight or flight. Difficult to control thoughts in state of anxiety. Not until dsm 3 that there was a separate groups of disorders - anxiety disorders. Group of mental health problems - about emotions being disproportionate to situation. Awareness dropped in dsm 5. now its no longer necessary for person to know that their anxiety is disproportionate to threat. Share core symptom - intense worry disproportionate to actual disorder environmental danger (argument) Artificially splitting anxiety disorders that do not fit reality (really blurry) Anxiety as a sign of mental health problem - came about in early 20th c. ate to now. Anxiety as a sign of mental health problem - came about in early 20th c. Asylums primarily housed psychotic individuals and those deemed too dangerous to remain in the community.
