PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Amygdala, Reaction Formation, Electromyography
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The vague sense of being in danger is usually called anxiety. People with generalized anxiety disorder experience general and persistent feelings of worry and anxiety. People with specific phobias have a persistent and irrational fear of a particular object, activity, or situation. People with agoraphobia fear traveling to public places such as stores or movie theaters. People with social anxiety disorder are intensely afraid of social or performance situations in which they may become embarrassed. people with panic disorder have recurrent attacks of terror. Most individuals with one anxiety disorder suffer from a second one as well. Women diagnosed with the disorder outnumber men 2 to 1. Most powerful forms of societal stress is poverty. In any given year, african americans are 30 percent more likely than white americans to suffer from this disorder. Sigmund freud: believed that all children experience some degree of anxiety as part of growing up.
