PSY 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 41: Amygdala, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder
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A: anxious feelings and behaviors are classified as an anxiety disorder pattern of distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety. In the more extreme panic disorder, intense dread. Two other disorders (ocd and ptsd) involve anxiety but are classified separately from the anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorders: psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety. These include feel persistently and uncontrollably tense and apprehensive, for no anxiety escalates into periodic episodes of may be irrationally afraid of a specific object, activity, or only when they form a. Generalized anxiety disorder: an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal. Symptoms include: worrying continually, often jittery, on edge, and sleep deprived. Concentration is difficult as attention switches from worry to worry. Their tension and apprehension may leak out through furrowed brows, twitching eyelids, trembling, perspiration, or fidgeting from autonomic nervous system arousal.
