PY 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reflex Syncope, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Excessive worry about future events, past transgressions, financial status, and the health of oneself and loved ones (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) More likely to occur in adults than children. A pervasive pattern of social timidity characterized by fear that the person will behave in a way that will be humiliating or embarrassing (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Severe and persistent fears of circumscribed events, objects, or situations that led to significant disruption in areas of functioning (cid:1) A condition involving obsessions (intrusive thoughts), often combined with compulsions (repetitive behaviors), that can be extensive, time consuming, and distressful (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) After an event that involves actual or threatened death, serious injury, or a threat to physical integrity, emotional distress leads to avoidance of stimuli associated w/ the trauma. Persistent symptoms of increased sns arousal (cid:1)