Anxiety Related Disorders Flashcards
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Define anxiety
Preoccupied and avoidance, excessive worry
Is anxiety higher among men or women?
Women and decreases with age
What are the most common anxiety disorders?
PTSD and Social Phobia Disorder
List 4 key features of anxiety
- Psyhsiological symptoms
- Avoidance symptoms
- Disturbances in attention - intrusive thoughts, attention biases, re experiencing symptoms
- Subjective feeling of anxiety
What is Specific Phobia?
Fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation eg animal, blood, dentist
What is Dentophonbia?
Fear of the dentist
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
Fear about one or more social or performance situation in which the person is exposed to possible scrutiny by others.
What are the clinical features of Social Anxiety Disorder?
- Hypersentive to criticism
- Non-assertive
- Low self-esteem
- Comorbid anxiety is common
- Safety behaviours including avoiding eye contact, covering face with hair
Takes observer perspective for social memories - Information processing biases eg negative interpretation of social events, does not detect positive responses of others, focus on the negatives in post event processing.
What is Panic Disorder?
Recurrent and unexpected panic attacks. At least one attack followed by one month of:
- persistent concern about another attack
- significant maladaptive change in behaviour
- Rule out specific phobia, other conditions and substance abuse
What are 4 or more symptoms must occur for a panic attack?
- Palpitations/pounding heart
- Trembling/Shaking
- Feeling of choking
- Nausea/abdominal pain
- Chills/hot flushes
- Derealisation (unreality)/Depersonalisation (detach)
- Fear of losing control/going crazy
- Sweating
- Shortness of breath
- Chest pains/discomfort
- Dizziness/light headness
- Paresthesias (numbness/tingling)
- Fear of dying
What is agoraphobia?
Anxiety about being in a place where escape might be difficult or embarrassing if a panic attack occurs.
List the fears that at least must be present for a diagnosis of Agoraphobia.
- Using public transport
- being in open spaces
- being in enclosed spaces
- standing in line or being in a crowd
- being outside of the home alone
List 6 other anxiety disorders
- Separation Anxiety Disorder
- Selective mutisim
- Substance/Medication induced anxiety disorder
- Anxiety disorder due to medical condition
- Other specified anxiety disorder
- Unspecified anxiety disorder
What is Generalised Anxiety Disorder?
Excessive worry about numerous events/activities with difficulty in controlling the worry
What 3 symptoms must you experience to be diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder?
- Restlessness/on edge
- Easily fatigued
- Difficulty concentrating/mind blank
- Irritability
- Muscle tension
- Sleep disturbance
- worry and anxiety must cause significant interference
What 3 traits are present in individuals with Generalisd Anxiety Disorder?
- Less tolerance for uncertainty
- Underestimate coping ability
- Overestimate the likely event of negative consequences
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
Fixation on one part of the body
What is Hoarding Disorder?
Inability to let go of objects
What is Trichotillomania?
Hair pulling disorder
What is Excoriation?
Skin picking disorder
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
Obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours to stop the thoughts
What are the DSM-V criteria for OCD?
- Obsessions, compulsions or both
- Cause distress and time consuming (>1hr/day) or cause significant interference
- Not restricted to another axis disorder (eg food obsession in eating disorder)
- Not due to substance abuse or medical condition
- Pecify if with good or fair insight, with poor insight, with absent insight/delusional beliefs.
Is OCD high in males or females?
Females
What is age of onset for OCD?
childhood/teenage. Rare after 35yo.
