PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Hypervigilance

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3140
• Professor: Peter Papadogiannis

Document Summary

Lecture 6 - chapter 5 + 6: anxiety disorders / stress disorder. Anxiety disorders - most common type of abnormal behaviour. 12-17% of adults have some form of anxiety disorder in any given year. 25-30% do not report seeking treatment for diagnosable disorder. Commonalities with mood disorders - negative emotional responses (guilt, worry) Have the highest comorbidity -50% of anxiety disorders have symptom overlap with other anxiety disorders. In general, people with anxiety disorders share a preoccupation - people. People do not like how it feels with the symptoms and features with the think about their body and their features - their cognition becomes distorted anxiety disorder. Do everything possible to avoid feeling that way. That is helpful in the short term that is helpful. This persistence avoidance does not allow people to live a productive life in different social situations. Fear is not good or bad, positive or negative experiences - helpful in immediate danger.