PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Locus Coeruleus, Panic Disorder, Kindling Model
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Psy240 lecture 3 may 23, 2012: anxiety disorders (chapter 7) Disorder vs. difficulties: there are a couple of things to keep in mind when talking about certain disorders. Fears of people with anxiety disorders: severe enough to lower the quality of life, chronic and frequent enough to interfere with functioning, out of proportion to the dangers that they truly face. Adaptive vs. maladaptive fear: some anxiety or fear is appropriate and adaptive e. g. flight or fight (can get you out of harmful situations, can be a motivator, it is appropriate in certain situations, adaptive, maladaptive: Amount of fear experiences in proportion to the threat. Concerns are unrealistic; source of anxiety cannot hurt them or unlikely to occur. Amount of fear experienced is out of proportion to harm that threat could cause. Fear response continues or is persistent even after the threat is no longer present; additionally, the person may experience a great deal of anticipatory anxiety.
