PSYB32H3 Midterm: Exam 02 Notes
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Anxiety: the unpleasant feeling of fear and apprehension. Anxiety tends to be future-focused emphasis on things that could happen. Bc many of the things people worry about never happen, anxiety and worry can be reinforced by the avoidance of feared outcomes and possible experiences that nebver happen. Persistent uncontrollable worry about many themes is central to generalized anxiety disorder. For generalized anxiety disorder, anxiety pervades many part of the patient"s life and they feel totally unable to do anything to control it. It"s normal and adaptive to experience some anxiety, esp in life-threatening situations. To be an abnormal behaviour, anxiety must be chronic, relatively intense, associated with role impairment, and cause sig distress for self or others. Core of gad is uncontrollable worry: subjectivity and situational factors must be taken into account. Normal to geel highly anxious in situation that is upsetting and a threat to personal survival.
