PSYC 3230 Lecture Notes - Panic Attack, Panic Disorder, False Alarm
Document Summary
The complexity of anxiety disorders anxiety: complex and mysterious. Definition: mood state characterized by marked negative affect and bodily symptoms of tension in which a person apprehensively anticipates future danger and misfortune. Related to fear is panic attack, where we propose is fear that occurs when there is nothing to be afraid of and therefore at an inappropriate time. Anxiety can be a subjective sense of unease, a set of behaviours, or a physiological response originating in the brain and reflected in elevated heart rate and muscle tension. Moderate amount of anxiety is good for us. Social, physical and intellectual performances are driven and enhanced by anxiety. Howard liddell proposed the idea when he called anxiety the shadow of intelligence . Thought the human ability to plan in some detail for the future was connected to that gnawing feeling that things could go wrong and we had better be prepared for them. Why anxiety is a future-oriented mood state.
