PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Avolition, Learned Helplessness
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Neurosis: disorder causing personal distress and some impairment in functioning. Typically lose contact with reality, suffer delusions and/or hallucinations. Seriously impaired ability to function in everyday life. Feeling that something bad is about to happen. May be associated with a particular situation or object, or it may be free-floating, not associated with anything specific. 1, generalized anxiety disorder (gad: social anxiety disorder (formerly known as social phobia, panic disorder, phobias. Is experienced as an overall sense of dread. Excessive non-specific anxiety and worry for . 6 months. 7. 1% of population develop this at some time in their life. More woman than men, more poor than rich. Severe, persistent ear of embarrassment in social situations. General fear of functioning poorly in front of others. Some people report that a panic attack feels like a heart attack. Repeated panic attacks + ongoing fear of future attacks. Persistent, irrational fear of some specific object, situation, or activity that poses no real danger.
