When someone is an extremely anxious individual, there something in them that cannot stop their worry of typically malicious thoughts. These thoughts manifest themselves in their minds and create more anxiety. On occasion enough anxiety has been created to allow it to affect their lives. One such disorder is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). GAD is the excessive worry of a variety of situations. When an individual is unable to control this worry, it creates physical symptoms such as tenseness, a rapid heart rate, sweating, or irritability as well as cognitive symptoms such as rumination, and the inability to concentrate.
According to Borkovec and Roemer, GAD is associated with “inflated predictions of catastrophe” (Borkovc and Roemer, 1995, p. 28). This article demonstrates two studies that were done in an undergraduate psychology course. It was interesting to see that the participants thought that the worry they felt was used to motivate themselves to get accomplishments done, preparing for the occurrence of feared events, and to develop ways in order to avoid these feared events. These particular reasons for avoiding worry can be seen as good adaptive measures. However, GAD patients exaggerate the likelihood of possible future disasters. With this …show more content…
There are many implications that society can take away based on the movie, “As Good As It Gets”. Melvin is diagnosed with OCD. With this diagnosis, an individual has intrusive thoughts which create anxiety. These thoughts are the obsessions that are continuous in their minds. The anxiety will then lead to a behavior in order to ease those thoughts. These behaviors are the compulsions that eventually become a ritual to allow them the ability to function. Particularly, for Melvin, some of his compulsions are the continuous washing of his hands, and his pattern of five (I.e., locking up 5 times, turning on the light 5
According to Borkovec and Roemer, GAD is associated with “inflated predictions of catastrophe” (Borkovc and Roemer, 1995, p. 28). This article demonstrates two studies that were done in an undergraduate psychology course. It was interesting to see that the participants thought that the worry they felt was used to motivate themselves to get accomplishments done, preparing for the occurrence of feared events, and to develop ways in order to avoid these feared events. These particular reasons for avoiding worry can be seen as good adaptive measures. However, GAD patients exaggerate the likelihood of possible future disasters. With this …show more content…
There are many implications that society can take away based on the movie, “As Good As It Gets”. Melvin is diagnosed with OCD. With this diagnosis, an individual has intrusive thoughts which create anxiety. These thoughts are the obsessions that are continuous in their minds. The anxiety will then lead to a behavior in order to ease those thoughts. These behaviors are the compulsions that eventually become a ritual to allow them the ability to function. Particularly, for Melvin, some of his compulsions are the continuous washing of his hands, and his pattern of five (I.e., locking up 5 times, turning on the light 5