PSYB32H3 Lecture 6: Anxiety Disorders - Lecture 6
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18% - very common; co morbidity high; symptoms not disorder specific. Ideological factors give r ise to anxiety disorders non specific too. If not disable not meet criteria for phobia adl affected = no. To be diagnosed must be accompanied with sufficient distress disable adl. Claustrophobia, dorophobia open spaces, exanophobia fear of strangers freud: unconscious conflicts, modeling, classical conditioning. 4 categories of specific phobia: blood, injuries, and injections, situations planes, elevators, animals, natural environment. Social phobia more disabling; fear of being evaluated. More severe: can be specific social phobias: public speaking. More likely that have phobia women e. g. loosing job. Go e. r. thinking they"re going to die. Joseph wolf e. g. fear of air plane travel. Depression highly co morbid antidepressant for rx. Look things holistically no meaning without holistic emotional rxns. Whole impt. more than sum of parts abcs what is it that you made of. Projection things about us we don"t want to see.
