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This is the most common type of anxiety disorder, involving persistent and excessive worry about various topics.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder
This term refers to the fear of being trapped in places where escape might be difficult, often tied to panic disorders.
What is Agoraphobia
This disorder involves persistent feelings of sadness and loss of interest in activities once enjoyed.
What is Major Depressive Disorder
True or False: Bipolar II Disorder involves full manic episodes.
What is False (Bipolar II involves hypomanic episodes, not full mania.)
Which anxiety disorder often develops in soldiers after returning from combat?
What is PTSD
A person who experiences sudden, intense episodes of fear with physical symptoms like chest pain and dizziness is likely having this.
What is a Panic Attack
True or False: Avoidance behaviors are a major part of anxiety disorders.
What is True
In this disorder, individuals alternate between periods of depression and periods of mania.
What is Bipolar Disorder
In depression, these two neurotransmitters are often found at lower levels.
What are serotonin and norepinephrine
We learned Anxiety and Mood disorders... which disorders do you want to learn next?
What is Personality disorder (there's 10) or Schizophrenia
This anxiety disorder often develops after a terrifying event and includes flashbacks, nightmares, and severe anxiety.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Obsessions and compulsions characterize this disorder, where people have repetitive, unwanted thoughts and behaviors.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
A milder form involving mood swings, recurrent hypomanic and depressive symptoms that are not intense enough or do not last long enough to qualify as hypomanic or depressive episodes.
What is Cyclothymic Disorder
Name one cognitive symptom of Major Depressive Disorder.
Cognitive meaning thoughts, thinking...
What is difficulty concentrating (or negative thinking, indecisiveness)
During a shopping trip, Selena suddenly feels her heart racing, chest pain, dizziness, and thinks she's dying. This episode passes in about 10 minutes. What is she experiencing?
What is a Panic Attack
An irrational fear of a specific object or situation, such as spiders or heights, is called this.
What is a Specific Phobia
Name two physical symptoms commonly associated with Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
What are muscle tension and restlessness (or fatigue, irritability, sleep problems)
During a manic episode, people often show these many common symptoms. Name two.
What are inflated self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, and rapid speech, racing thoughts, distractibility, excessive energy, feeling euphoric or extreme happiness.
People with Bipolar Disorder may engage in risky behaviors during THIS phase.
What is a Mania(Manic) phase
Every night, before going to bed, Alex must lock and unlock the door exactly five times or else he feels extremely anxious. What disorder is most likely?
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
This disorder involves intense fear of being judged or humiliated in social situations.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder
Which body system is overactivated during anxiety responses, causing the "fight or flight" reaction?
a) Sympathetic Nervous System
b) Parasympathetic Nervous System
What is A - Sympathetic Nervous System
There are many celebrities who suffer from bipolar disorder. Name 3
What is Selena Gomez, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Catherine Zeta Jones, Linda Hamilton, Sinead O’Connor, Carrie Fisher, Jimi Hendrix, Deme Lovato, Frank Sinatra, David Harbour, Russell Brand, Sting, Winston Churchill.
Depression symptoms can vary from mild to severe for 2 weeks. Name at least 3 symptoms
What is
Maria has periods of extremely high energy, barely sleeps, spends thousands of dollars impulsively, and then crashes into deep sadness weeks later. What disorder does she likely have?
What is Bipolar disorder