PSY240H1 Chapter : Ch7 Textbook Notes
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Marc summers, howie mandel both suffer ocd. Fears are severe, lower quality of their lives, chronic, frequent enough to interfere with functioning, out of proportion to the dangers that they really face. Physiological/somatic e. g. muscle tension, heart palpitations, increased perspiration, dilated pupils. Emotional e. g. sense of dread, terror, restlessness, irritability. Cognitive e. g. anticipation of harm, exaggeration of danger, worried, ruminative thinking, fear of losing control/dying. Physiological and behavioural symptoms are similar to flight-or-fight response. Adaptive fear: concerns are realistic, amount of fear is proportional to the reality of the threat, fear subsides when threat ends. Maladaptive anxiety: concerns are unrealistic, amount of fear out of proportion, concern is persistent, anticipatory anxiety. Neurosis: used by freud as a term referring to disorders in which the anxiety aroused by unconscious conflicts couldn t be quelled or channelled by defence mechanisms. Research suggests that some people have a general tendency toward anxiety from an early age.
