PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: American Psychiatric Association, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
19 Mar 2014
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Inappropriate emotional reactions (for the person"s situation): erratic behaviour (shifts unpredictably), classification systems: Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems. Anxiety disorders: definition: unpleasant emotional state for which the cause is not readily identified or is felt to be uncontrollable . Not in the textbook: people who experience anxiety regularly, to the point where is impairs social functioning, are considered to have an anxiety disorder, symptoms: Physical symptoms (headache, sweating, palpitations, fatigue, etc. ) Five types of anxiety disorders: generalized anxiety disorder: characterized by high levels of anxiety not tied to any event, experience non-specific fear and worry, becoming overly concerned about everyday matters, difficult to control. Physical symptoms include restlessness, fatigue, trembling, nausea and lack of concentration: phobic disorder: high anxiety that has a specific focus, irrational fear of an object that is not realistically dangerous. Sufferers understand that their fears are irrational but they cannot get over it.
