1. Anxiety Disorders

2. Anxiety Disorders
Textbook: psychological disorders characterized by distressing persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety *Most common

3. Anxiety Disorders
Disorders in which anxiety is a characteristic feature or the avoidance of anxiety seems to motivate abnormal behavior

4. Generalized Anxiety Disorder

6. Panic Attack (disorder)
A sudden unpredictable feeling of intense fear or terror… usually lasts only a few minutes

7. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
A conditioning in which episodes of anxiety, sleeplessness, and nightmares are the result of some disturbing event in the past (PTSD)

8. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
A conditioning in which episodes of anxiety, sleeplessness, and nightmares are the result of some disturbing event in the past (PTSD)
Stressful Event: fire, flood, tornado, combat…
Possibly reliving the event…

9. Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
A disorder in which a person feels compelled to think disturbing thoughts and perform senseless rituals. (OCD)
*Obsessions are involuntary thoughts or ideas that keep recurring despite the person’s attempt to stop them.
**Compulsions are repetitive, ritualistic behaviors that a person feels compelled to perform.

10. OCD

11. OCD
About 20% of those with OCD have only obsessions or only compulsions
* Not visibly anxious unless try to stop them…

12. OCD + Survey

13. Phobic Disorders

14. Phobic Disorders
Phobia = an intense, paralyzing fear something in the absence of any real danger – a fear of something that other people find bearable.

15. Fear vs. Phobia

16. Agoraphobia?

17. Social Phobias
Fears generally connected with the presence of other people (Public speaking, eating…)