PSY BEH 102C Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Selective Mutism, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder
18 Apr 2016
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Anxiety, trauma and stressor related and obsessive compulsive and related disorders. May lead to avoidance of situations likely to provoke fear. Immediate fight or flight response to danger or threat. Involves abrupt activation of the sympathetic nervous system. Pervasive and persistent symptoms of anxiety and fear. More likely to be anxious if there is a family history of anxiety. Depleted levels of gaba are associated with more anxiety. Deficits in norepinephrine and serotonin also associated with greater anxiety. A difference in your body that triggers that you are unsafe. A brain circuit that runs from the brain stem to the mid brain. Early childhood-experiences with uncontrollability and unpredictability lead to more anxiety. Comorbidity: having more than one diagnosis at once. Major depression is the most common secondary diagnosis. Share a lot of symptoms and cognitive distortions. About half of patients have two or more secondary diagnoses. Excessive uncontrollable anxious apprehension and worry about multiple areas of life.
