01:830:340 Chapter 5: Abnormal Chapter 5

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Chapter 5: anxiety, obsessive- compulsive, and related disorders. Anxiety: the vague sense of being in danger, cannot pinpoint a specific cause for your alarm, you feel tense and edgy. Prepare us for action (cid:498)fight or flight(cid:499) , make us more cautious. People whos discomfort is to severe is said to have anxiety disorder. Generalized anxiety disorder: experience excessive anxiety under most circumstances and worry about practically anything. Symptoms last 6 months but people can still have relationships. May emerge any age but usually in childhood and adolescence. In us rate is twice as high with people with low incomes: race closely tied to stress in us, african americans more likely to suffer from this disorder, hispanic and latin americans suffer from nerves. According to freud, when a child is overrun by neurotic or: children(cid:495)s face realistic anxiety when they face actual danger. A child(cid:495)s ego defense mechanisms may be too weak to cope world don(cid:495)t cope well.

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