PSY240H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Panic Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Locus Coeruleus
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Anxiety general feeling of apprehension about possible danger. Anxiety [freudian perspective] sign of inner battle or conflict between some primitive desire. [from id] and prohibitions against its expression [from ego and superego] Anxiety disorders affect 25-30% of population at some point in their lives. [historically] fear experienced emotion when source of danger is obvious. [historically] anxiety cannot specify clearly what danger is, experienced intuitively as an unpleasant inner state where we are anticipating something dreadful happening that is not entirely predictable from our actual circumstances. Basic emotion that involves activation of fight-or-flight response of sympathetic nervous system. Instantaneous reaction to any imminent threat, and allows us to escape from this threat. Panic attack when fear/panic response occurs in absence of any obvious external danger. Fear and panic have three components: [loosely coupled components: cognitive/subjective components * i feel afraid/terrified or i"m going to die , physiological components [increased heart rate, heavy breathing, behavioural components [strong urge to escape or flee]
