PSYC 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Shyness, Nicotine, Agoraphobia
6 Oct 2020
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Anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Two other disorders involving anxiety: obsessive-compulsive disorder person is troubled by repetitive thoughts or actions, posttraumatic stress disorder person has lingering memories, nightmares, and other symptoms for weeks after a severely threatening, uncontrollable event. Generalized anxiety disorder an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tensed, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal: dizziness, sweating palms, heart palpitations, ringing in ears, feels edgy or shaking. Marked by pathological worry: worry continually, often jittery, agitated, and sleep-deprived. Symptoms are commonplace and persist for six months or more. Concentration is difficult, attention switches from worry to worry. Worst characteristic person may not be able to identify and deal with or avoid its cause. Often accompanied by depressed mood, but even without depression it is disabling. May lead to physical problems: high blood pressure. Many people were maltreated and inhibited as children. Emotions mellow with age: age 50 gad becomes rare.
