PSY-1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 48: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology (A&S)
• Course: PSY-1200
• Professor: Sandberg Elisabeth

Document Summary

3 main anxiety disorders to know: generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobias. 2 other disorders involving anxiety: obsessive-compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorders. Generalized anxiety disorder: anxiety disorder in which a person is continuously tense and in a constant state of arousal, jittery, agitated, sleep deprived, not easy to identify. People are often depressed and have experienced physical harm as a child. Panic disorder: marked by short, few-minutes long episodes in which one feels immense dread as if something awful is about to happen, feelings similar to a heart attack. Obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd: unwanted repetition of thoughts, behaviors, and actions. 2 to 3% of people deal with this. Post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd: memories, nightmares, jump anxiety, numbness that lingers after a tragic experience or tragic period, roughly 10% of all of manhattan experienced ptsd after 9/11, very common for war veterans, especially of the iraqi war. The more frequent the assault experience, the more common the outcomes.