PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Panic Attack, Muscle Dysmorphia, Body Dysmorphic Disorder
8 Sep 2017
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Anxiety, fear, and panic: anxiety is defined as feeling threatened by a hypothetical situation or future event, fear is defined as feeling threatened by a real or perceived threat. I need to be perfect or i will get hurt. If people laugh at me, it is the end of the world. 35): about 1. 7% one-year prevalence - persistent and chronic, agoraphobia is a persistent and chronic condition, and complete remission. Lasts longer than 6 months: out of proportion to the actual danger - white knuckling, several subtypes exist, animal type (common, natural environment type (storms, heights) [common, blood-injection-injury type (seeing blood, needles, blood drawn, visible injuries) Lasts for at least one month, and can"t be accounted for by knowledge or comfort with the language: point of prevalence of <1%. It is thought that most kids outgrow selective mutism, but it is probably manifests differently as social anxiety disorder.
