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Anxiety
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Mood state characterized by marked negative affect and bodily symptoms of tension in which a person apprehensively anticipates future danger or misfortune. Anxiety may involve feelings, behaviors, and psychobiological responses.
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Fear
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Emotional response consisting of an immediate alarm reaction to present danger or life-threatening emergencies
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Panic
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Sudden overwhelming fright or terror.
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Panic attack
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Abrupt experience of intense fear or discomfort in the absence of danger accompanied by a number of physical symptoms, such as dizziness or heart palpitations.
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Behavioral inhibition system (BIS)
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Brain circuit in the limbic system that responds to threat signals by inhibiting activity and causing anxiety.
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Fight/flight system (FFS)
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Brain circuit in animals that when stimulated causes an immediate alarm and escape response resembling human panic.
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Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
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Anxiety disorder characterized by intense, uncontrollable, unfocused, chronic, and continuous worry that is distressing and unproductive accompanied by physical symptoms of tenseness, irritability, and restlessness.
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Panic disorder with agoraphobia (PDA)
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Fear and avoidance of situations the person believes might induce a dreaded panic attack.
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Agoraphobia
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Anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult.
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Panic disorder without agoraphobia (PD)
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Panic attacks experienced without development of agoraphobia.
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Panic control treatment (PCT)
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Cognitive- behavioral treatment for panic attacks, involving gradual exposure to feared somatic sensations and modification of perceptions and attitudes about them.
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Specific phobia
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Unreasonable fear of a specific object or situation that markedly interferes with daily life functioning.
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Blood-injury-injection phobia
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Unreasonable fear and avoidance of exposure to blood, injury, or the possibility of an injection. Victims often experience fainting and a drop in blood pressure.
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Situational phobia
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Fear of enclosed places (e.g., claustrophobia) or public transportation (e.g., fear of flying).
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Natural environment phobia
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Fear of situations or events in nature, especially heights, storms, and water.
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Animal phobia
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Unreasonable, enduring fear of animals or insects that usually develops early in life.
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Separation anxiety disorder
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Excessive, enduring fear in some children that harm will come to them or their parents while they are apart.
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Social phobia
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Extreme, enduring, irrational fear and avoidance of social or performance situations.
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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Enduring, distressing emotional disorder that follows exposure to a severe helpless- or fear-inducing threat. The victim re-experiences the trauma, avoids stimuli associated with it, and develops a numbing of responsiveness and an increased vigilance and arousal.
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Acute stress disorder
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Severe reaction immediately following a terrifying event, often including amnesia about the event, emotional numbing, and derealization. Many victims later develop posttraumatic stress disorder.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
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Anxiety disorder involving unwanted, persistent, intrusive thoughts and impulses as well as repetitive actions intended to suppress them.
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Obsessions
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Recurrent intrusive thoughts or impulses the client seeks to suppress or neutralize while recognizing they are not imposed by outside forces
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Compulsions
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Repetitive, ritualistic, time-consuming behaviors or mental acts a person feels driven to perform
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