PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Frontal Lobe, Psychoanalytic Theory, Depersonalization
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Chapter 6 anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and post-traumatic stress disorders. Anxiety: unpleasant feeling of fear and apprehension accompanied by increased physiological arousal. Considered a drive between threatening situation and avoidance behaviour. Phobias: fear and avoidance of objects/ situations not presenting any real danger. Panic disorders: recurrent panic attacks involving sudden onset of physiological symptoms, accompanied by terror and feelings of impending doom- sometimes accompanied by agoraphobia: fear of being in public places. Gad generalized anxiety disorder: persistent, uncontrollable worry. Ocd- obsessive compulsive disorder: experience of uncontrollable thoughts, impulses, or images obsessions and repetitive behaviours or mental acts compulsions. Post-traumatic stress disorder: aftermath of traumatic experience in which person experiences increased arousal, avoidance of stimuli ass with event and anxiety recalling event more than 4 weeks. Acute stress disorder: symptoms same as ptsd,but last for 4 weeks or less. Comorbidity among anxiety disorders bc: symptoms of various ad are not entirely disorder specific.
