PSY240H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Cognitive Restructuring, Toilet Training, Basal Ganglia
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Anxiety: unpleasant feeling of fear and apprehension. Anxiety disorders: diagnosed when subjectively experienced feelings of anxiety are clearly present. Symptoms of the various anxiety disorders are not entirely disorder specific. The etiological (original) factors that give rise to various anxiety disorders are probably applicable to more than one disorder. 1 in 5 people have some form of an anxiety disorder. Social anxiety disorder is the most common type. Those with an anxiety disorder are less likely to seek mental health services than those with mood disorders. Anxiety and depression can be differentiated by high physiological hyper-arousal associated with anxiety, and low positive affect associated with depression. People with phobias have greater activity in the amygdala and the insula. Disrupting, fear-mediated avoidance that is out of proportion to the danger actually posed; there is no objective danger. Psychoanalysts focus on the content of the phobia and see the phobic object as a symbol of an important unconscious fear.
