PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
Document Summary
Social anxiety disorder: phobia, panic disorder and agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder. Special guest: chris rodrigues: etiology and treatment of anxiety disorders. Because many of the things that people worry about actually never happen, anxiety and worry can be reinforced by the avoidance of feared outcomes and possible experiences that never happen. Similar symptoms across disorders: unexpectedness is important when it comes to defining anxiety, anxiety disorders are diagnosed when subjectively experienced feelings of anxiety are clearly present, but remember our principles of what defines abnormality and consider: It is normal and perhaps even adaptive to experience some degree of anxiety: eg. avoiding danger, anxiety can motivate us, eg. study more for an exam. It has to impede or preclude you from doing daily activities: what is the difference between fear and phobia, http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=4teih_fj_9g. Specific phobias (simple phobias: the irrational fear of a very specific situation, place, animal, or object, eg. fear of animals.
