PSY240H5 Chapter 7: Chapter 7-Anxiety Disorders.doc
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Chapter 7: anxiety disorders: the fears of people with anxiety disorders are severe and ultimately lower the quality of their lives. Their fears are chronic and frequent enough to interfere with their functioning. Finally, their fears are out of proportion to the dangers that they truly face: four types of symptoms that make up anxiety, physiological, or somatic, symptoms. Muscle tension, heart palpitations, stomach pain, and the need to urinate. Similar to those of fight-or-flight response: emotional symptoms. Primarily a sense of fearfulness and watchfulness: cognitive symptoms. Unrealistic worries that something bad is happening (that his father is ill) or is about to happen (that he will lose his job: behavioral symptoms. For example, the majority of people with serious depression also report bouts of anxiety: freud and many other early theorists believed that anxiety was the underlying cause of most forms of psychopathology.
