Health Sciences 4091A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tardive Psychosis, Anxiety Disorder, Biology Of Depression
11 Dec 2016
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Fear: an emotion- arise in response to danger in the environment, assumed to have an object. Objective: it would be hard for anyone to argue against. Specific things that makes you scared: unpleasant state of bodily arousal (fight or flight) and focusing on the perceived threat, worry and concern = less intense fears, emotional response to specific and immediate danger. Both fear and anxiety can be normal or disordered. Disorder vs. dis-order; disability vs. dis-ability and dis-ability. Tardive dysphoria: depression from long term use of meds. Tardive psychosis: psychosis from long term use of meds. Video: what"s wrong with psychiatry: makes claims that are not justified by biology, no criticism of the status quo, claim that mental disease is a brain disease, chemical imbalance. What causes compromised mental health: innate temperament, early attachment (first 2 years of life are crucial, trauma, social determinants of health, intelligence. Anxiety as learned experiences witness- to be afraid of it.
