PSY 12000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Derealization
11 Dec 2018
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Anxiety disorders: phobic disorders, specific phobia, social phobia: irrational fear of being publicly humiliated or embarrassed, eating in public, speaking in public. Depersonalization: a feeling of being detached from one"s body. 6% people in the us experience generalized anxiety disorder (women more than men) Obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) 2% of adults in u. s. Obsessions: repetitive or intrusive thoughts: intense, frequent, experienced as irrational (people experiencing this knows it is not practical) Compulsions: ritualistic behaviors: compulsions help decrease the anxiety, compulsions are used to ease the obsessions, this greatly impacts peoples" lives, individuals cannot stop theirselves form thinking about this over and over again. Most common obsessions and compulsions: checking (79%, ordering (57%, moral concerns (43%, contamination (26%) Chronic physiological arousal recurrent unwanted thoughts (flashbacks) avoidance of things that call or bring the traumatic event back to mind. Mood disorder: mental feature mood disturbance as their predominant feature.
