Anxiety Disorders

Question 1

Generalised Anxiety Disorder

Answer 1

• Thinking anxious thoughts; feel irritable, on edge, trouble sleeping, experiencing fatigue and bodily tension
• Often worry about small things
• GAD often experience other anxiety disorders

Question 2

Panic Disorder

Answer 2

• multiple panic attacks experienced
  Occur when nervous feelings gather momentum and can sore into intense fear, or terror.
• can occur rarely or on a daily basis for various times
• Peak within 10 minutes and include: sweating; dizziness; light-headed; racing/pounding heart; shortness of breath; feelings of unreality; fears of going crazy

Question 3

Phobias

Answer 3

• intense fears of an object or a situation that is greatly out of proportion to its actual threat. (Agoraphobia: fear of being in a situation or place which is difficult to escape; or is embarrassing; or where help is unavailable In the event of a panic attack)
• Specific phobias commonly arise in response to animals, insects, thunderstorms, water, elevators and darkness

Question 4

Social Anxiety Disorders

Answer 4

• intense fear of negative judging in social situations and performing in public

Question 5

Post traumatic Stress Disorder

Answer 5

• When people experience or witness a traumatic event and develop PTSD
• Symptoms: effort to avoid thoughts, feelings, places, objects and conversations that remind the person of the even; recurring dreams; startling easy; difficulty in sleeping; reminders trigger episodes

Question 6

Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

Answer 6

• Typicallysuffer from obsessions (persistent ideas, thoughts or urges that are unwanted/in appropriate and cause marked distress.
• Suffer compulsions (repetitive behaviour or mental acts initiated to reduce or prevent distress)

Question 7

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Answer 7

• Becoming preoccupied with imagined or slight defects in their appearance

Question 8

Tourette’s Disorder

Answer 8

• condition marked by repeated automatic behaviours/tics such as twitching and facial grimacing and vocal tics
• Tourette’s and OCD share biological roots

Question 9

Learning Theoristse

Answer 9

• learning theorists theorise that fears are learned
• classical conditioning (Little Albert)
• can acquire fear by observing others engaging in fearful behaviours

Question 10

Catastrophising

Answer 10

• Core feature of anxious thinking, they predict terrible events, despite their low probability, and tend to react with intense worry
• can spiral into panic attacks
• neuroticism: tendency to be highly strung and irritable