1. Anxiety Disorders
Emily Rojas
Period 7

2. Essential Questions What is Anxiety disorders?
How someone can have an anxiety disorder?
How can someone cope with anxiety disorder in there surrounding environment?

3. What is Anxiety?
Anxiety is a normal human emotion that everyone experiences at times. Many people feel anxious, or nervous, when faced with a problem at work, before taking a test, or making an important decision. Anxiety disorders, however, are different. They can cause such distress that it interferes with a person's ability to lead a normal life.
An anxiety disorder is a serious mental illness. For people with anxiety disorders, worry and fear are constant and overwhelming, and can be crippling.

4. How Does it feel?
There are many types of anxiety disorders including panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobias, and generalized anxiety disorder.
Fear
Worried
Uncomfortable

5. Components of anxiety
Affective – feelings of fear, panic, agitation, nervousness
Cognitive – worry, negative thoughts, poor concentration, attentional biases
Physiological – increased heart rate, stomach aches, muscle tension, perspiration, sleeping difficulties
Behavioral – flight, fight, freeze, reassurance seeking

6. Types of Anxiety Disorders
Panic Disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Social Anxiety disorder
Specific phobias
Generalized Anxiety Disorders

7. Treatment 70% or better treatment response
Education, reassurance, elimination of caffeine, alcohol, drugs, OTC stimulants
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Medications – SSRIs, venlafaxine, tricyclic's, MAOIs, benzodiazepines, valproate, gabapentin

8. Panic Disorder
People with this condition have feelings of terror that strike suddenly and repeatedly with no warning. Other symptoms of a panic attack include sweating, chest pain, palpitations (unusually strong or irregular heartbeats), and a feeling of choking, which may make the person feel like he or she is having a heart attack or "going crazy."

9. What triggers a Panic Disorder?
Panic is different from the normal fear and anxiety reactions to stressful events in our lives. Panic disorder is a serious condition that strikes without reason or warning. Symptoms of panic disorder include sudden attacks of fear and nervousness, as well as physical symptoms such as sweating and a racing heart.

10. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
People with OCD are plagued by constant thoughts or fears that cause them to perform certain rituals or routines. The disturbing thoughts are called obsessions, and the rituals are called compulsions. An example is a person with an unreasonable fear of germs who constantly washes his or her hands

11. What triggers anxiety?

12. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) Treatment
40-60% treatment response
Serotonergic antidepressants
Behavior therapy
Adjunctive antipsychotics, psychosurgery
PANDAS – penicillin, plasmapharesis, IV immunoglobulin

13. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a condition that can develop following a traumatic and/or terrifying event, such as a sexual or physical assault, the unexpected death of a loved one, or a natural disaster. People with PTSD often have lasting and frightening thoughts and memories of the event and tend to be emotionally numb.

14. What is the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
What is the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ? What triggers the anxiety?

15. Social Anxiety disorder
Social anxiety disorder: Also called social phobia, social anxiety disorder involves overwhelming worry and self-consciousness about everyday social situations. The worry often centers on a fear of being judged by others, or behaving in a way that might cause embarrassment or lead to ridicule.

16. Specific Phobias
A specific phobia is an intense fear of a specific object or situation, such as snakes, heights, or flying. The level of fear is usually inappropriate to the situation and may cause the person to avoid common, everyday situations.

17. What trigger the anxiety?
When encountering your phobia
Hear the name
Even thinking about your phobia

18. Specific phobias Treatment
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
How Does it make you feel?

19. Generalized Anxiety Disorders
This disorder involves excessive, unrealistic worry and tension, even if there is little or nothing to provoke the anxiety.

20. How can someone cope with anxiety disorder in there surrounding environment?
Relaxation tools
Physical Activity Tools
Social Tools
Thinking Tools
Distractions
Cognitive Behavior Therapy

21. Relaxation tools – slow release of emotional energy
Breathing
Relaxation training
Repetitive action
Lego/Drawing
Music – listening/playing
Sleep
Reading

22. Physical Activity Tools – quick release of physical energy
Exercise – trampoline
Sport
Creative destructive
Swing

23. Social Tools Spend time with family member or friend Seek advice
Solitude
Be with a pet

24. Thinking Tools Put event in perspective
What would you like to do/think ahead
Flexible thinking •“It might have been an accident. I should check before I get angry”
Social story

25. Distractions Distractions are mental operations – typically mindless
Goal is to engage mind in something simple or routine that the worry thoughts are prevented
Distraction helps to take your mind of the negative/worrying thoughts
It helps you take control of your thoughts by thinking about something else

26. Cognitive Behavior Therapy
What is COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY?
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is based on the idea that how we feel and what we do are due to the way we think.
Focuses on relationship between
Cognitions – what we think
Affect – what we feel
Behavior – what we do

27. Using CBT in the Environment
STOP Plan
S = pay attention to signs of anxiety
T = pay attention to anxious thoughts
O = think of other helpful thoughts
P = praise and plan for next time.

28. Citations
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l"Panic Attacks and Panic Disorder." WebMD. WebMD, n.d. Web. 01 Apr