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• Distinguish the types of anxiety disorders by their symptoms

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Anxiety Disorders

Mental problems characterized mainly by anxiety.

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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.

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Anxiety DisordersAnxiety DisordersGeneralized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Characterized by persistent and pervasive feelings of anxiety, without any external cause

Anxiety DisordersAnxiety DisordersPanic Disorder

Strong feeling of anxiety that has no connection to present events.

Unlike GAD, the victims are usually free of anxiety between attacks

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PhobiasA 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.

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Anxiety DisordersAnxiety 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

CompulsionsRepetitive, purposeful acts performed according to certain ‘rules’ in response to an obsession.

Preparedness HypothesisPreparedness HypothesisThe 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

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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…

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