PSYCH 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Derealization, Middle Ages, Buspirone
23 Mar 2016
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Fear is a basic emoion, light-or-ight based, present-oriented, sympatheic nervous system. Anxiety is a blend of muliple unpleasant emoions, with difuse physical and psychological efects, based on future concerns (worry about danger in the distance) Adapive in the sense if concerns are realisic and proporionate to threat, and if negaive emoions go away ater the threat is done. Maladapive if worry is unrealisic, excessive, persistent, anicipatory, and interferes with regular funcioning. Yerkes-dodson law: intermediate anxiety produces the best performance, but high/low anxiety lead to worse results. Contribuing factors: geneics, personality (neuroicism/negaive afect), psychosocial (intrusive parening, external locus of control) Anxious almost all the ime, in almost all situaions, 6+ months more days than not. Somaic symptoms: muscle tension, faigue, irritability (not similar to panic symptoms) Cogniive aspects: focused on threats (atenional bias), uncontrollable and unpredictable, belief that worrying is producive, muliple triggers can cause anxiety. Treatment: drugs (buspirone>benzodiazepines and anxiolyics) and cbt (cogniive restructuring/coping skills, acceptance, applied muscle relaxaion)
