PSYC 3140 Lecture : Anxiety
26 Dec 2011
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Major question relates to when anxiety becomes an actual disorder. Certain level of anxiety spurs one on to work harder and be more. However certainlevel it becomes non adaptive ( too much anxiety may. Generalized anxiety disorders y excessive worry or anxiety -> according to dsm, this occurs. More days than not for atleast 6 monthsm about a number of. Tend to have worries about regular everyday things. The worry is out of proportion of the kind of live they live. Anxiety is fearfulness of an event which may happen, differentiationg. Causes: y hypothesis: people with gad differ from ppl who develop other. Forms of anxiety in that they tend to be autonomic. When individuals with gad placed in a stressful. Condition, compared to other inidiv their autonomic arousal. Doesn t go up by too much. y may be becase there are certain mental processes that are. Typical of gad which are not present in thought processes of.
