B&b Quiz 3: Anxiety Disorders

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Panic Disorder

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Episodic attacks of sudden-onset, intense anxiety lasting < 30 minutes and associated with cardiac or respiratory symptoms and fear of impending death. Can occur +/- agoraphobia. Avg age onset is 25.

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Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

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Persistent symptoms of anxiety, including hyperarousal and excessive worrying over at least a 6-month period. Symptoms cause significant distress but cannot be related to a specific person or situation. Often comorbid w/ MDD; 50% onset in kids/teens.

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OCD

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Recurrent, unwanted, intrusive, negative feelings, thoughts, and images which are relieved to some extent by performing nonpleasurable, nonsatisfying, repetitive actions. Usually begins in childhood/early adulthood

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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

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Anxiety symptoms following a traumatic event including re-experiencing, hyperarousal, emotional numbing, and avoidance. Risk factors: female, personal or fam psych hx, childhood trauma, abuse, alcohol abuse.

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Acute stress disorder (ASD)

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PTSD symptoms lasting from 2 days to 4 weeks

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Specific phobia

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Unfounded, irrational fears of certain things (such as snakes or elevators). Most common mental health problem.

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Social phobia/social anxiety disorder

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Exaggerated fear of embarrassing oneself in a social or performance setting such as while giving a speech, eating in public, or using a public restroom.

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Agoraphobia

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Fear of going outside or of crowds. Commonly occurs w/ panic disorder.

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Claustrophobia

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Fear of small, enclosed spaces

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Obsession

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Recurrent, unwanted, intrusive, negative feelings, thoughts, and images

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Compulsion

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Nonpleasurable, nonsatisfying, repetitive actions which relieve anxiety associated with obsessions

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Hoarding

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Obsession about discarding something valuable that leads to an inability to discard anything

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Sx of stress disorders

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re-experiencing, hyperarousal, emotional numbing, avoidance

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Re-experiencing symptoms

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Intrusive thoughts or memories of the event that occur unexpectedly (flashbacks) as well as recurrent nightmares of the event.

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Hyperarousal symptoms

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Anxiety, increased startle response, impaired sleep, and hypervigilance (e.g., jumping at every sound).

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Emotional numbing symptoms

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Decreased emotionality, an inability to experience happiness, and difficulty connecting emotionally with others

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Cognitive-behavioral therapy

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Attempts to identify and then change problematic cognitions

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Systematic desensitization

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Treatment used primarily in the treatment of phobias. Involves exposure to increasing doses of fear provoking stimulus while pairing it with a relaxing stimulus

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Flooding

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Direct exposure to actual fear stimulus while preventing avoidance/escape behaviors theoretically leading to disassociation of the stimulus with the fear response