PSYA02H3 Lecture : Lecture 28
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Causes of anxiety disorders: stressful life event. Hypersensitive to cue that triggers the past event: childhood adversity. Worry about danger as a child: attachment style. Develop fear after a bad experience: cognition. Effective way to reduce anxiety in early stage: sri (serotonin reuptake inhibitor) Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is relevant in mood and anxiety. Inhibit serotonin reuptake means there is a greater amount of serotonin. Patient is taught to realize and avoid catastrophic thinking: systemic desensitization. Work to get patient becomes relaxed when the object of fear comes closer. Successive step of bringing the phobia to the patient. Associate feeling of relaxation with the fear of object. Try to remove bad feeling with the object. Bring the object closer through conditioning and association www. notesolution. com: psychoanalysis. Find out the causes of anxiety in the sub-consciousness. Try to find the cause of the upsetting character.
