Anxiety Spectrum Disorders

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Social factors are often precipitants to

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Anxiety disorders

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Delusions are separated from preoccupation, rumination, and obsession by the fact that it is

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Not based in reality, and it is fixed

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Preoccupation with one or more perceived defects in physical appearance

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Body Dimorphic Disorder

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Repetitive behaviors (excessive grooming) or mental acts (comparing)

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Body Dimorphic Disorder

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Patient is preoccupied with body build being too small

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Muscle Dysmorphia

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A diagnosis of exclusion

-Symptoms develop in response to a stressor

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Adjustment Disorders

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In order to diagnose with adjustment disorder, we must establish a

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Cause and Effect

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Signs and symptoms must have onset within 3 months of acute stressor

-Once acute stressor is eliminated, symptoms must not persist for longer than 6 months

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Adjustment disorders

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Inhibited, emotionally withdrawn behavior

-Child/adolescent between 9 months and 5 years

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Reactive Attachment disorder

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Also characterized by social and emotional disturbance (irritability or sadness) and is not attributed to an autism disorder

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Reactive Attachment Disorder

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We often see a history of insufficient care, I.e. neglect with

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Reactive attachment disorder

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Child older than 9 months who actively approaches and interacts with unfamiliar adults

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Disinhibited social engagement disorder

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Consistent failure to speak in specific social situations

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Selective mutism

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A combination between major depression and anxiety

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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With generalized anxiety disorder, the SIG and A of SIG E CAPS becomes

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SI: significant irritability
G: Generalized muscle tension
A: anxiety and excessive worry

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Persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions

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Hoarding disorder

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Perceived need to save items/distress associated with discarding them

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Hoarding disorder

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Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that an individual feels driven to perform

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Compulsions

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Compulsions are aimed at reducing

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Anxiety

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Anxiety due to the direct physiological effects of a substance

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Substance-induced anxiety disorder

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We do not get substance-induced anxiety disorder from intoxication with

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Opioids

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We can experience substance-induced anxiety disorder from withdrawal from

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Opioids, cocaine, and alcohol

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Recurrent pulling out one’s hair, resulting in hair loss

-Repeated attempts to decrease or stop hair pulling

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Trichotillomania

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Recurrent, unexpected panic attacks

-With 1 month of worry, concern about attacks

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Panic Disorder

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May occur in the context of any mental disorder

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Panic Attack

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Precipitate panic more frequently (70%) in panic disorder than in patients w/o panic disorder (5%)

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Lactate infusions

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A discrete period of intense fear or discomfort in which four or more of the THISISNOTFUN symptoms develop abruptly and reach a peak within 10 minutes

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Panic Attack

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Panic attacks with associated medical conditions -Pre-syncope due tp decreased vagaries input

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Panic disorders

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Anxiety about being in places from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing in the event of having a panic attack

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Agoraphobia

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Sedative-, hypnotic, or anxiolytics, as well as nicotine and opioids will NOT cause

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Substance-induced anxiety disorder

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A signal to the ego that a forbidden unconscious drive is pushing for conscious expression

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Phobic Neurosis

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Developmentally-inappropriate anxiety concerning separation from attachment figures

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Separation anxiety disorder

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Mitral valve prolapse and pre-syncope are associated medical conditions with

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Panic disorder

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Trauma between 10-16 months is suggestive of

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Separation Anxiety Disorder

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Fear of humiliation or embarrassment in social or performance situations

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Social Anxiety Disorder

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Has a “performance only” specifier -Typically lasting 6 months or more

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Social Anxiety Disorder

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15 minutes prior to teaching, we can treat social anxiety disorder with

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Propranolol

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Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence can lead to

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Acute stress disorder or PTSD

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PTSD has symptoms for longer than

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1 month

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Acute Stress Disorder has symptoms between

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3 days and one month

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Recurrent skin picking that results in skin lesions -A variant of trichotillomania

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Excoriation disorder

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Fear cued by object or situation

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Specific Phobia