Diagnosis and Symptoms
This disorder involves excessive worry about daily life for at least six months.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
This type of learning explains phobias developing when a neutral stimulus becomes associated with fear.
What is Classical conditioning?
This physical symptom of anxiety includes a rapid or pounding heartbeat during panic episodes.
What is Increased heart rate?
This type of therapy helps people change negative thought patterns and behaviors related to anxiety.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
A common myth about this disorder is that people are just “overthinking” and should be able to stop worrying.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
This condition includes sudden episodes of intense fear that peak within about 10 minutes.
What is a Panic Attack?
This learning pathway involves developing fears by observing others, such as a child learning fear from a parent.
What is Vicarious learning?
This complication involves difficulty focusing or the mind “going blank” due to anxiety.
What is Difficulty concentrating?
These medications, including SSRIs and SNRIs, are commonly used to reduce anxiety symptoms.
What are Psychotropic medications?
A myth about this condition is that panic attacks are dangerous heart attacks, even though they are not physically harmful.
What is Panic Disorder?
This disorder involves extreme fear of social situations where a person may be judged by others.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
This inherited personality trait involves a tendency to show fear and restraint in unfamiliar situations.
What is Behavioral inhibition?
This complication includes disrupted sleep, such as trouble falling or staying asleep.
What are Sleep disturbances?
This behavioral treatment involves gradually exposing a person to their fear until anxiety decreases.
What is Exposure therapy?
A myth about this disorder is that people are simply shy, even though it involves intense fear and avoidance of social situations.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
This disorder involves being unable to speak in certain situations despite having the ability to speak normally.
What is Selective Mutism?
This cognitive cause of anxiety involves overestimating threats and misinterpreting situations as dangerous.
What is Cognitive misinterpretation?
This severe symptom of panic disorder includes fear of losing control or dying during an attack.
What is Intense fear of death or losing control?
This technique is based on the idea that fear and relaxation cannot occur at the same time.
What is Systematic desensitization?
A myth about this disorder is that children are choosing not to speak, rather than experiencing severe anxiety.
What is Selective Mutism?