General Terms
Sudden, overwhelming fright or terror.
Panic
Anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult in the event of panic symptoms or other unpleasant physical symptoms (e.g., incontinence).
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
People’s urge to pull out their own hair from anywhere on the body, including the scalp, eyebrows, and arm.
Trichotillomania
Brain circuit in animals that when stimulated causes an immediate alarm and escape response resembling human panic.
Fight/flight system (FFS)
Excessive, enduring fear in some individuals that harm will come to them or their loved ones when they are apart.
Separation anxiety disorder
Attachment disorder in which a child with disturbed behavior neither seeks out a caregiver nor responds to offers of help from one; fearfulness and sadness are often evident.
Reactive attachment disorder
The emotion of an immediate alarm reaction to present danger or life-threatening emergencies.
Fear
Extreme, enduring, irrational fear and avoidance of social or performance situations.
Social anxiety disorder
Abrupt experience of intense fear or discomfort accompanied by a number of physical symptoms, such as dizziness or heart palpitations.
Panic Attack
Repetitive, ritualistic, time-consuming behaviors or mental acts a person feels driven to perform to suppress obsessions.
Compulsion
Anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult in the event of panic symptoms or other unpleasant physical symptoms (e.g., incontinence).
Agoraphobia
A disorder involving unwanted, persistent, intrusive thoughts and impulses, as well as repetitive actions intended to suppress them.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
A mood state characterized by marked negative affect and bodily symptoms of tension in which a person apprehensively anticipates future danger or misfortune. Anxiety may involve feelings, behaviors, and physiological responses.
Anxiety
True or False: There is one single gene that causes anxiety.
False
Severe reaction immediately following a terrifying event, often including amnesia about the event, emotional numbing, and derealization. If symptoms persist beyond one month, victims are diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder.
Acute stress disorder