HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Claustrophobia
31 Jan 2020
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Fear vs anxiety: anxiety: apprehension about anticipated events (not what ur doing at the moment, but rather in the. Helps organize responses to threat, like "fight or flight" future, not certain what"s going to happen: physiological changes (sweating, weakness, shaking, sleeping problems) Some helpful uses up to a point, without exceptionality, becomes problematic (not something to try to avoid, can organize our behaviour, can prompt us for future events) (ex. Anxious about midterm so you excessively study not always a bad thing) Rise of interest in anxiety: asylums primarily housed psychotic individuals & those deemed too dangerous to remain in community. In the past anxiety wasn"t a medical problem. Freud"s emphasis on neuroses helped reshape 20th century as the age of anxiety. In the moment you get the reward of not experiencing the anxiety. Spiders, claustrophobia, heights, planes, blood/needles: usually some reason as to why.
