PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Major Depressive Episode, Panic Attack

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

Abnormal behavior isn"t determined from what we deem moral, or socially acceptable those beliefs change over time: when it impairs function, then it"s a problem effects ability to go to work, form relationships, or perform are considered disabilities, causes distress the person directly or the people around them (ie: anorexia. Criteria for a panic attack: future oriented fear of what"s to come, mood state procrastinating, taking drugs, feeling that one cannot predicts or control upcoming event, present oriented fight or flight response, prepping for the present, discrete period of intense fear/discomfort in which at least 4 symptoms developed abruptly and reached a peak within 10 minutes. The dsm iv anxiety disorders: panic disorder with/without agoraphobia, specific phobia, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder (gad) ie: winning a trip to hawaii and instead of being happy, they automatically focus on the negatives like the flight duration, possible yet unlikely diseases, packing.