Anxiety

Anxiety disorders are becoming increasingly common in society, and are characterized by common symptoms of fear over future events or the consequences of current ones. This fear is often debilitating in the afflicted person, and is a hindrance to normative behaviour. Certain anxiety disorders originate in childhood and adolescence, and they may persist into adulthood without treatment. One anxiety disorder with particularly negative implications is social anxiety disorder. Social anxiety…

Life with Generalized Anxiety Disorder Marisa A. Cinquepalmi Lindenwood University- Belleville Author Note Marisa A. Cinquepalmi, Department of Psychology, Lindenwood University- Belleville. Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to Marisa A. Cinquepalmi, Department of Psychology, Lindenwood University- Belleville, Belleville, IL 62226. E-mail: MAC583@lionmail.lindenwood.edu. Life with Generalized Anxiety Disorder Generalized Anxiety Disorder affects approximately 3.1%…

Treatment Plan for Generalized Anxiety Disorder This treatment plan is based upon the scenario presented in Unit 4, for client Kristen. According to the criterion set out in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), this client has all of the symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder, (GAD) 300.02 (F41.1). The presenting symptoms include: excessive worrying, tiredness, irritability, sleeplessness, muscle tension, and difficulty concentrating. Her…

generalized anxiety disorder? What are the key features of the disorder? Generalized anxiety disorder can be defined as severe ongoing symptoms in which daily activities are interrupted. These symptoms include: drowsiness, insomnia, muscle tensions, difficulty concentrating, excessive amounts of worrying and anxiety. This disorder is typically seen during childhood or adolescence, but it can emerge at any age. Societal and cultural pressures add to the prevalence of generalized anxiety disorder.…

Every person has some level of anxiety. It’s responsible for the fight-or-flight reflex, an inner voice used to calculate risk and an essential factor that keeps us alive. My anxiety has always been an overwhelming force in my life but primarily as a nagging voice in my head threatening severe consequences for all of my actions. In kindergarten I would count my delicate footsteps on the school sidewalk, only allowing two steps per concrete slab. If I stepped three times in one square, I would…

Anxiety Disorders are discussed in Chapter 14. Generalized Anxiety Disorder is something that I can relate to. I worry a lot and I worry about things I can’t control or already happened. This definition is very similar to what I have been experiencing for quite a while. I am not trying to diagnosis myself based on this definition. With this being my first year of college and being away from family, I worry a lot more and about things I never used to. It got to the point where my mom called the…

Social Anxiety What is socially anxiety? How do people get it? How is it different than other anxieties? Living with social anxiety can be hard, I would know. I have it. I’ve known that I’ve had social anxiety ever since I was 10, that would’ve been fifth grade for me. There are a lot of different causes of social anxiety, but for me it was bullying. It took over my life, I became afraid to do anything in front of other people because I was afraid they would call me “stupid” or “ugly” or say…

(1995) clients with generalized anxiety disorder may perceive thoughts and feelings of worry and often times people set high standards for ones self as for self advancement. Often times stress and worry are a result of our lack of control over our cognitions. Many people often worry when they have set expectations for achieving a goal or accomplishing a task. People may worry excessively and the extent to their worry may turn out to be diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder based on the…

Depressive Disorders and Phobias: Social and Specific Depressive Disorder and Anxiety Disorder Based on a meta-analysis written in 2014, approximately one fifth of individuals experience symptoms of either an anxiety disorder or a depressive disorder (Steel et al., 2014). Within this population, “49% to 81% of persons with a depressive disorder have met diagnostic criteria for an anxiety disorder, and 47% to 88% of those with an anxiety disorder have met criteria for a depressive disorder…

Depression and Anxiety Intervention Process Jennifer M. Gosha Post University Background Jason is an 11 year old Caucasian male who resides with his mother, stepfather and two step siblings. Jason is in the sixth grade and has been approved for Special Education the past four years of his schooling. He has been diagnosed with depression and anxiety by a licensed pediatrician and psychologist. In the past, Jason has become violent in the classroom. If called upon and he did not…