PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Panic Attack
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Anxiety disorders category of disorders involving fear or nervousness that is excessive, irrational, and maladaptive. Often occur with other disorders ex. depression or substance abuse. Can become highly maladaptive and even crippling. Stress response is normal for all mammals to have in terms of fight- or-flight responses, but our world is full of stress and continuously activating our stress system over time can cause many stress- related illnesses. Phobia severe irrational fear of a very specific object or situation. Specific phobia an intense fear of a specific object, activity, or organism ex. heights, dogs, needles: often developed from an unpleasant or frightening experience. Social phobias: social anxiety disorder a very strong dear of being judgd by others or being embarrassed or humiliated in public, generally leads people to limit their social activity. Anxiety disorders tend to be self-perpetuating: their anxiety leads to more circumstances that further provoke anxiety. They tend to have people take on self-fulfilling prophecies.
