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I CAN Distinguish the types of anxiety disorders by their symptoms Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007

Anxiety Disorders Mental problems characterized mainly by anxiety. Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress. It helps one deal with a tense situation work, study harder for an exam, or keep focused on an important speech. In general, it helps one cope. But when anxiety becomes an excessive, irrational dread of everyday situations, it has become a disabling disorder.

Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 Anxiety Disorders Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) Characterized by persistent and pervasive feelings of anxiety, without any external cause

Anxiety Disorders Panic Disorder Strong feeling of anxiety that has no connection to present events. Unlike GAD, the victims are usually free of anxiety between attacks Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007

Phobias A group of anxiety disorders involving a pathological (excessive) fear of a specific object or situation 1. Arachnophobia: The fear of spiders. 2. Ophidiophobia: The fear of snakes. 3. Acrophobia: The fear of heights. 4. Agoraphobia: the fear of leaving your home 5. Cynophobia: The fear of dogs. 6. Astraphobia: The fear of thunder and lightening. 7. Trypanophobia: The fear of injections. 8. Social Phobias: The fear of social situations. 9. Pteromerhanophobia: The fear of flying. 10. Mysophobia: The fear of germs or dirt.

Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 Anxiety Disorders Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Condition characterized by patterns of persistent, unwanted thoughts and behaviors Obsessions Thoughts, images, behaviors, impulses reappear despite the person’s effort to suppress them. A Mild Obsessive Experience: rechecking a door to see if it’s locked Compulsions Repetitive, purposeful acts performed according to certain ‘rules’ in response to an obsession.

Preparedness Hypothesis The concept that we have an innate tendency, acquired through natural selection, to respond quickly and automatically to stimuli that posed a survival threat to our ancestors Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 Heights, spiders, snakes, bad weather COULD actually kill you. You are more likely to die in a car than from a spider bite, but no one jumps away from cars… YET…

CAN I Distinguish the types of anxiety disorders by their symptoms Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007