PSY1022 Chapter Notes -Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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An individual"s continual preoccupation with the notion that they have a serious physical disease. Continual feelings of worry, anxiety, physical tension and irritability across many areas of life functioning. Brief, intense episode of intense fear characterised by sweating, dizziness, light-headedness, racing heartbeat and feelings of impending death of going crazy. Repeated and unexpected panic attacks, along with either persistent concerns about future attacks or a change in personal behaviour in an attempt to avoid them. Intense fear of an object/situation that"s greatly out of proportion to its actual threat. Fear of being in a place/situation from which escape is difficult/embarrassing or in which help is unavailable in the event of a panic attack. Intense fear of objects, places or situations that is greatly out of proportion to their actual threat. Marked fear of public appearances in which embarrassment/humiliation seems likely. Condition marked by repeated and lengthy (at least one hour a day) immersion in obsessions, compulsions, or both.
