HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture 5: L4B Anxiety
8 Feb 2020
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Chronic worriers - not fixed, may not even have clear source , doesn"t produce panic attacks. Accompanied by minot disturbance in sleep, irritability, concentration, restlessness. Chronic, low-key, long lasting, make up of a persons character. Evolutionary: anxiety or phobias adaptive in some situations, out of place in modern world, the environment has changed over time. Freud: anxiety a warning sign about id"s impulses. We get anxious when we are 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. Genetics may play role; inherit proclivity to panic vs experiencing generalized anxiety distinctly: doesn"t hold true for all types of anxiety disorders. Perhaps panic disorder results from brains defect- when faced with biologically dangerous situations (hyperventilation), we misinterprets theses signals as genuinely life threatening; catastrophic.
