PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attack, Panic Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

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Anxiety disorders: (cid:498)a category of disorders involving fear or nervousness that is excessive, irrational, and maladaptive(cid:499) frequency and intensity of anxiety response is out of proportion to the situation ( duration, degree, and source) -people think they are having a heart attack- cognitive symptoms. Still as anxious as ever, fear of having attack emotional symptoms. Now they don(cid:495)t go to the grocery. I feel in in my stomach and then my heart and breathing come in store, people who have panic attacks have their world shrink. Not as extreme in a panic attack, but its often there. Constant feeling of anxiety, something bad is going to happen but cant put your finger on it. Phobias intense fear of a particular thing or situation fear of flying ( situation: spiders (thing) Often connected to panic disorder ( you might not want to go certain spaces that you(cid:495)ve had a panic disorder before(cid:524) Fear is to a very specific thing.