PSY 3171 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Temporal Lobe, Acute Stress Reaction
17 Dec 2017
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Chapter 5 outline: the complexity of anxiety disorders, anxiety disorders, panic disorders and agoraphobia, specific phobia social anxiety disorder (social phobia, trauma- and stressor-related disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders other obsessive-compulsive and related. Anxiety, fear, and panic: anxiety, fear, and panic, panic attacks. Causes of anxiety and related disorders: biological contributions. Comorbidity of anxiety and related disorders: comorbidity: occurrence of two or more disorders in a single person, depressive disorder and anxiety disorders most commonly comorbid, biological and psychological vulnerabilities also shared between these disorders. Suicide: 20% of panic disorder patients attempt suicide, comparable to people with depression, suicidal ideation common, suicide attempts common more likely by those who inflict self-harm. Clinical description: uncontrollable, unproductive worrying about everyday events, feeling impending catastrophe even after successes, inability to stop the worry anxiety cycle. Muscle tension mental agitation susceptibility to fatigue irritability, difficulty sleeping.
