1. Anxiety Disorders
Unit 6

2. What is anxiety?
A state of intense apprehension, uneasiness, uncertainty, or fear.

3. What are Anxiety Disorders
- a group of conditions where the primary symptoms are anxiety or defenses against anxiety.
- The patient fears something awful will happen to them.

4. Generalized Anxiety Disorder
An anxiety disorder in which a person is in a continuously tense, apprehensive state.
The patient is constantly tense and worried, feels inadequate, is oversensitive, can’t concentrate and suffers from insomnia.

5. Panic Disorder
An anxiety disorder marked by a minutes-long episode of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking and other frightening sensations.
- Can cause secondary disorders, such as agoraphobia (Fear of places and situations).

6. Phobias
A person experiences sudden episodes of intense dread.

8. The Phobia List Link

9. What are some of your fears / phobias?
Table talk
What are some of your fears / phobias?
Be honest; everyone has at least one thing.

10. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions).

15. Table talk
Were you able to spot the differences in the humorous OCD Tests?
Do you consider yourself to have some OCD traits?
Why / Why not?
Do you know anyone that could be OCD?
Why do you think that they could be OCD?

16. Common Examples of OCD Common Obsessions: Common Compulsions:
Contamination fears of germs, dirt, etc.
Washing
Imagining having harmed self or others
Repeating
Imagining losing control of aggressive urges
Checking
Intrusive sexual thoughts or urges
Touching
Excessive religious or moral doubt
Counting
Forbidden thoughts
Ordering/arranging
A need to have things "just so"
Hoarding or saving

17. Explanations for Anxiety Disorders
You learn them through conditioning.
Evolution
Genes
Physiology (the brain)