Signs and Symptoms and Techniques
Causes
Treatment and Management
Myths
Anxiety Disorders
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People with social phobia tend to focus a lot on how they are doing or try to gauge other people's reaction while speaking in a social situation.
What is difficulty staying on task?
100
Parents communicate an overly cautious view of the world, parents are overly critical and set excessively high standards, your parents suppress your self assertiveness, causing insecurity and dependence
What are Childhood circumstances?
100
Abdominal breathing and deep muscle techniques, physical exercise practiced on a regular basis are examples of this cathartic activity.
What is relaxation training?
100
You cannot keep your worrying under control when you have Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Phobias, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder are all types of anxiety Disorders.
What is false?
100
An inability to specify what you are worried about, focus on the internal rather than the external, stemming from a vague, distant, unrecognized danger, resulting in a sense of losing control of oneself or a situation.
What is anxiety?
200
Racing" heart •Feeling weak, faint, or dizzy •Tingling or numbness in the hands and fingers •Sense of terror, or impending doom or death •Feeling sweaty or having chills •Chest pains •Breathing difficulties •Feeling a loss of control
What are "Panic Attack" symptoms
200
Examples of short-term triggering causes.
What are significant personal loss, significant life change, stimulants and recreational drugs?
200
Known for recognizing overly cautious safety behaviors that tend to reinforce worrying and stopping the use of them.
What is reducing worry behaviors or safety behavior reduction?
200
It is difficult to sleep when you have Generalized anxiety Disorder (GAD).
What is true?
200
Characterized by sudden episodes of acute apprehension or intense fear that occur out of the blue without apparent cause, intense experience lasting no more than a few minutes, but can come in waves for up to two hours.
What is a Panic Disorder / Panic attack?
300
Practicing voluntary habituation to the bodily symptoms of panic such as rapid heart beat, sweaty hands, shortness of breath, or dizziness allowing a person to get use to the symptoms so they no longer frighten you.
What is Interoceptive desensitization?
300
Examples of maintaining causes.
What are Anxious self talk, mistaken beliefs, avoidance of phobic situations, withheld feelings, lack of assertiveness, lack of self nurturing, muscle tension, high stress life styles?
300
Prolonged and repeated engagement with fearful images of worst case scenarios of what you are worried about, including strategies used to reduce the anxiety and cope with the situation.
What is Worry Exposure?
300
Avoiding anxiety-producing situations is a good way to manage GAD.
What is false? Treating yourself as if you are fragile and avoiding risk leads to feeling demoralized. Avoiding anxiety tends to reinforce it. You can be anxious and still do whatever you have to do.
300
Fear of having a panic attack in open spaces or afraid of being in situations from which escape might be difficult, or help is unavailable should you suddenly have a panic attack.
What is Agoraphobia?
400
Recognizing symptoms of suppressed feelings; identifying what you feel, learning t express your feelings, communicating your feelings to someone else.
What is emotional level management?
400
Physiology of panic, panic attacks, generalized anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, medical conditions that can cause anxiety and panic.
What is a Biological cause?
400
Gradually and incrementally facing the situations you are phobic about.
What is Exposure or desensitization?
400
Since anxiety is "in your head," anxiety disorders are not true illnesses
What is false?
400
Fear of embarrassment or humiliation in situations where you are exposed to the scrutiny of others or you must perform, fear can be so strong that it causes you to avoid the situation altogether, even though some endure the situations.
What is Social Phobia?
500
Taking responsibility in context of support; motivation - overcoming secondary gains; making a commitment to yourself to follow through; Willingness to take risks; Defining and visualizing your goal to recovery.
What are the necessary ingredients for undertaking your own recovery program?
500
Misunderstandings or misinterpretations of self, others, or situations.
What are mistaken beliefs?
500
Paxil, Zoloft, Luvox, Lexapro, Xanax or Klonopin
What are anxiety medications SSRI's or benzodiazepine tranquilizers?
500
The causes of anxiety disorders are usually rooted in your childhood, so effective therapy must focus on that time period.
What is false? Whatever the causes (usually a combination of heredity and personal experiences), research shows that effective treatment focuses on the here and now, including new skills to manage thoughts, emotions, discomforts, and behavior.
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Chronic Anxiety that persist for at least 6 months but is unaccompanied by panic attacks, phobias, or obsessions. usually focused on two life stressors.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
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