PSC 168 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Autogenic Training, Cognitive Restructuring, Representational State Transfer
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Dsm-5: unexpected panic attacks, plus at least one month of apprehension over having another attack. Somatic symptoms: breathlessness, sweating, choking, nausea, heart palpitations may lead to agoraphobia: anxiety about leaving one"s home (fear of open spaces, public places) Lifetime prevalence: 3. 5% twice as common in women as in men: generalized anxiety disorder (gad) persistent high levels of anxiety and excessive worry over major and minor life circumstances (more persistent, less intense than panic disorder) obsessing. Somatic symptoms: heart palpitations, muscle tension, restlessness, trembling, sleep difficulties, poor concentration, persistent apprehension/nervousness more common; world-wide most frequently diagnosed anxiety disorder. Cognitive behavioral: negative thoughts or over attention to bodily sensations such as internal triggers for panic attacks. Social/sociocultural: stressful childhood involving separation anxiety, family conflict, poverty, trauma, other environmental stressors. Biological- panic disorder associated with oxygen misregulation from dysfunction in the brain incorrect messages that oxygen is insufficient that causes hyperventilation and fears of suffocation.
