PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Panic Attack, Panic Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
9 Dec 2016
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46. 4% of individuals over age 18 have suffered from a psychological disorder at some point in their lives. Irrationality - behave in ways in which it does not reflect the ways of the world. Diagnostic & statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) Was the result of about a 13 year process in which basic research was brought to bear on all aspects of diagnosis. Suppose to be a scholarly research journal that was suppose to bring out what was really out there through its data had to decide which categories of disorders they could really discriminate. Colmore morbidity - ppl more often than not have more than 1 disorder at once ~ exhibit similar symptoms. Anxiety: a general feeling of apprehension about possible danger . You want to experience anxiety b/c anxiety is information. But for anxiety disorder, the anxiety sticks around & overwhelms them and makes them behave in a maladaptive way.
