Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 48: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Holden

Document Summary

Facts and figures: 1 in 5 canadians currently suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder. Psychological disorders account for 15% of financial cost of illness. In na, an adolescent commits suicide every 90 seconds: each year, over 1 million students withdraw from university due to emotional problems, look at pg. Abnormal behavior: behaviour that"s personally distressing, dysfunctional, and/or so culturally deviant that other people judge it as inappropriate or maladaptive, essentially option 6 from previous slide. Feeling anxiety, depression, etc especially if the person has no control over the reactions. Depression interferes with daily life: deviance. Violates societal norms especially if it can"t be attributed to environmental causes. Supernatural explanations: deviance = work of the devil (ancient chinese, egyptians, hebrews, treatment (in some cultures) trephination to release evil spirit, demonological models. Disturbed people were either involuntarily possessed by the devil, or made a dark pact. Biological breakthrough: syphilis brain degeneration general paresis.