PSY340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Acute Stress Reaction, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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What is anxiety: anxiety is an unpleasant emotional state ranging from mild unease to intense fear, a certain amount of anxiety, however, is normal and serves to improve performance, anxiety rouses you to action. It gears you up to face a threatening situation. It makes you study harder for that exam, and keeps you on your toes when you"re making a speech. Anxiety: anxiety: when we are in situations that we perceive to be threatening we are said to be anxious. Anxiety becomes pathological when it is heightened for extended periods of time, or when the focus of the anxiety is inappropriate: different from fear, fear: fear, is a similar state to anxiety, both psyhologically and physiologically. Maladaptive anxiety: high levels diffuse negative emotion sense of uncontrollability shift in attention to state of self-preoccupation. Excessive worry: uncontrollable sequence of negative thoughts of danger, pathological worry high quantity and negative, unrealistic content, causes impairment and marked distress.
