Week 4: Anxiety and Anxiety Related Disorders Flashcards
What is anxiety?
- Anxiety is a vague feeling of dread or apprehension in response to external or internal stimuli.
- Unavoidable in life and can serve many positive functions such as motivation
- Normal if appropriate for the situation and resolves
What is stress?
- It occurs when a person has difficulty dealing with life situations, problems, and goals
- anxiety as a expected response to stress
- Causes wear and tear that life causes on the body
What are the positive and negative effects of stress?
Positive stress can motivate you and inspire you to work harder.
Negative stress can cause you to feel distracted, overwhelmed, impatient, frustrated, or even angry. It can harm your health.
What are the positive and negative effects of stress?
Positive stress can motivate you and inspire you to work harder.
Negative stress can cause you to feel distracted, overwhelmed, impatient, frustrated, or even angry. It can harm your health.
What are the three stages of stress?
- Alarm
- Resistance
- Exhaustion
What is alarm in the stages of stress?
Your mind and body go on high alert, stimulating messages from the hypothalamus to glands (adrenal) and organs (liver)
What is resistance in the stages of stress?
Digestion system reduces function to shunt blood to areas of need
Lungs take in more air heart beats faster to nourish muscles, fight flight or freeze. If adapts – body relaxes
What is exhaustion in the stages of stress?
If exposure to stress is prolonged, and person has responded negatively to the stress, you begin to tire from continual arousal of physical responses and lose the ability to manage other stressors effectively.
What are the four levels of anxiety?
- mild
- moderate
- severe
- panic
What is the mild level of anxiety?
- Sensation that something is different and warrants special attention;
- sensory stimulation increases;
- attention is focused to learn, solve problems, think, act, feel, and protect self; motivated
- Restless, fidgeting, butterflies, difficulty sleeping, hypersensitive to noise
What is the moderate level of anxiety?
- Feeling that something is definitely wrong; disturbing
- nervousness or agitation
- can still process information, solve problems, and learn new things with assistance from others
- concentration difficult independently but can be redirected..
- Muscle tension, diaphoresis, pounding pulse, headache, dry mouth, higher pitched voice, Gi upset, frequent urination
What is the severe level of anxiety?
- Trouble thinking and reasoning can complete tasks, doesn’t respond to redirection
- muscles tighten, vital signs increase, pacing, restlessness, irritability, and anger;
- use of other emotional–psychomotor means to release tension
- Sever headache, nausea, vomiting, trembling, pale vertigo, chest pain
What is the panic level of anxiety?
- Fight, flight, or freeze responses; cognitive process focus on the person’s defense
- Cannot process environmental stimuli, delusions and hallucinations possible
- Distorted perceptions, does not recognize potential danger, may be suicidal
- May bolt or run Or totally immobile
- Dilated pupils
- Increased BP and pulse
What is the etiologies of anxiety?
Biologic theories
Genetic theories: anxiety may have an inherited component clear genetic susceptibility however other factors need to be present
Neurochemical theories: neurotransmitters may be dysfunctional in persons with anxiety disorders GABA ,NE, Serotonin
*Psychodynamic theories *
Intrapsychic/psychoanalytic theories: overuse of defense mechanisms
Interpersonal theory: results from problems in interpersonal relationships
Behavioral theory: “learned” behavioral response
What are the cultural considerations of anxiety?
Asian: express anxiety through somatic symptoms (headaches, backaches, fatigue)
Hispanics: express anxiety as sadness, agitation, weight loss, weakness, and heart rate changes
- supernatural spirits or bad air from dangerous places and cemeteries invades the body
