01:830:201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
28 Jul 2016
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Emotional state that involves fear, worry, physiological arousal of: can be linked to specific objects, generalized, be sudden and overwhelming, manifest itself in the absence of the performances of a compulsive behavior. Women are faced with more stressors than men. Age: anxiety disorder decline with age. 50% reduction in women ages 56-65 vs 18-25: passage of time leads to extinction, age brings wisdom, physiologically less responsive with age. Socioeconomic class: phobias more prevalent in less educated. Perhaps more incorrect beliefs about dangers: lower incomes. Environmental factors: higher rates of crime, physical assault, seeing others hurt, raped, killed. Ethnicity + cuutre: appears to be no evidence that the incidence of anxiety disorders which differ across ethinic groups and cultures. Mood symptoms: primary anxiety, panic tension, apprehension, secondary depression, irritability, Cognitive symptoms: doom and disaster, inattentive, distractible. Motor symptoms: restlessness, fidgeting, exaggerated startling responses. Irrational fear (persistent) of specific objects, activities or situations that have no justification.
