PS 272 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Irritable Bowel Syndrome
7 Mar 2017
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American psychiatric association (1994) - a negative mood state characterized by bodily symptoms of physical tension and apprehension about the future. Anxiety has 3 separate dimensions (lang, 1970) Physiological responses ( what your body is doing ) Abnormal anxiety: persistent anxiety, involves excessive avoidance and escapist tendencies, causes clinically significant distress and impairment ( good prognostic indicator ) Affect approximately 29% of the us population at some point in their lives. Most common category of disorders for women. Earliest age of onset of all the mental disorders. People with anxiety disorders are very high users of medical services. Accounts for 30% of the total cost of mental health care. Associated with an increased prevalence of a number of medical conditions (asthma, chronic pain, hypertension, arthritis, cardiovascular disease, and irritable bowel syndrome) Behavioral interventions (i. e. phobias): approach not avoid. Biological vulnerability interacts with other variables (psychological, experiential, social) to produce an anxiety disorder. You inherit vulnerabilities for anxiety, not disorders.
