PSYCH 477 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Ebsco Information Services, Amygdala, Serotonin Transporter
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Symptoms cause clinically significant distress and/or impairment; are not attributable to effects of a substance, and are not better explained by another mental disorder or medical condition. Specify if: fear restricted to speaking or performing in public. Louis, age 12, had hx of school refusal, social withdrawal, and excessive need for reassurance. On an almost daily basis louis would claim that he could not remain in the classroom. He would be sent to the nurse or counselor(cid:495)s office until his mother came to take him home. He felt terrified of parties, eating in public, reading aloud in class, and using public restrooms. His mother descibed him as always having been excessively fearful and needing constant reassurance. Louis met diagnostic criteria for both sp and gad: presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both: Behaviors/mental acts not connected in realistic way with dreaded event, or are excessive ritualized hand washing (at the severe end, until raw and bleeding). ritualized showering.
