Transcript Anxiety-Disorders..

I CAN
• Distinguish the types of anxiety disorders
by their symptoms
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Anxiety Disorders
Mental problems characterized
mainly by anxiety.
Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress.
It helps one deal with a tense situation work, study harder for an
exam, or keep focused on an important speech. In general, it
helps one cope.
But when anxiety becomes an excessive, irrational dread of
everyday situations, it has become a disabling disorder.
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Anxiety Disorders
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Characterized by persistent and
pervasive feelings of anxiety, without any
external cause
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Anxiety Disorders
Panic Disorder
Strong feeling of
anxiety that has
no connection to
present events.
Unlike GAD, the
victims are
usually free of
anxiety between
attacks
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Phobias
A group of anxiety
disorders involving a
pathological
(excessive) fear of a
specific object or
situation
1. Arachnophobia: The fear of
spiders.
2. Ophidiophobia: The fear of
snakes.
3. Acrophobia: The fear of heights. 6. Astraphobia: The fear of thunder and
lightening.
4. Agoraphobia: the fear of leaving
7. Trypanophobia: The fear of injections.
your home
8. Social Phobias: The fear of social
5. Cynophobia: The fear of dogs. situations.
9. Pteromerhanophobia: The fear of flying.
10. Mysophobia: The fear of germs or dirt.
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Anxiety Disorders
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Condition characterized by patterns of
persistent, unwanted thoughts and
behaviors
Obsessions
Compulsions
Repetitive, purposeful
Thoughts, images, behaviors,
impulses reappear despite the acts performed
according to certain
person’s effort to suppress
‘rules’ in response to
them.
an obsession.
A Mild Obsessive Experience: rechecking a
door to see if it’s locked
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Preparedness Hypothesis
Heights, spiders, snakes,
bad weather COULD
actually kill you.
YET…
You are more likely to die in
a car than from a spider bite,
but no one jumps away from
cars…
The concept that we
have an innate
tendency,
acquired through
natural selection,
to respond quickly
and automatically
to stimuli that
posed a survival
threat to our
ancestors
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CAN I
• Distinguish the types of anxiety disorders
by their symptoms
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