Common Defense Mechanisms
Attributing one's unacceptable thoughts and feelings onto another who does not have them.
Projection
An event, situation, or condition that results in psychological or physical stress.
Stressor
In this phase of the anxiety cycle the client is exposed to stress, the body enters the fight or flight stage, and the heart rate increases.
Alarm phase
Use of force, including kicking, hitting, slapping, pushing, strangling or biting to control how others behave and think.
Physical abuse
This is the brain's ability to change and reorganize its structure by forming new neural-synapse connections throughout life, increasing learning capacity over time.
Neuro plasticity
Pretending the truth is not reality to manage unpleasant, anxiety-causing thoughts or feelings.
Denial
A survival response that helps an individual respond quickly to a threatening situation.
Stress response
In this phase of the anxiety cycle the body finds itself depleted of energy reserves and unable to self regulate independently and reliably.
Exhaustion phase
Using threats, insults, and intimidation to exert control.
Emotional Abuse
This medication reverses the sedative effects of Benzodiazepine toxicity.
Flumazenil
Responding to stress through the unconscious development of physical manifestations not caused by a physical illness.
Conversion
This fight or flight response is where we are unable to respond or react against the stressor or situation.
Freeze
In this phase of the anxiety cycle, the body attempts to stabilize and repair itself following the alarm stage.
Resistance phase
Involves unwanted sexual contact between survivor and offender that includes threats, fondling, or grabbing.
Sexual assault
This medication is the first line medication for anxiety.
Buspirone
Unacceptable feelings or behaviors are controlled or kept out of awareness by overcompensating or demonstrating.
Reaction formation
This fight or Flight response is attempting to please or give in to the stressor or situation.
Fawn
Childhood experiences that include a home with plenty of food, having lots of friends, having mentors are considered....
PCE's or Positive childhood experiences
Potential signs include: untreated health problems, dehydration, malnutrition, poor living conditions, desertion of vulnerable individual or claims of being abandoned or mistreated.
Neglect and Abandonment
Symptoms of this occurs within minutes to hours of taking the medication and includes mental status changes, autonomic hyperactivity and neuromuscular responses. It can occur also when SSRI's are taken with other medications/supplements such as St. John's wort
Serotonin Syndrome
Conscious or unconscious assumption of the characteristics of another individual or group.
Identification
A positive stress response to a challenging but beneficial task that results in developmental growth mastery or a sense of fulfillment.
Eustress
Developmentally inappropriate and excessive fear or anxiety upon leaving who they are attached to.
Separation anxiety
Misuse of another person's financial resources, with or without permission.
Financial abuse
This drug class is a contraindication for SSRI's and SNRI's
MAOI's
Unconsciously putting unacceptable ideas, thoughts, and emotions out of awareness.
Repression
A negative stress response that includes chronic stress can result in the depletion of energy and the breakdown of resilience mechanisms.
Distress
Experiencing thoughts that ruminate on being embarrassed, humiliated, rejected, or offending others.
Social Anxiety
an intense emotion with both positive and negative effects.
Anger
chemical messengers that are sent between neurons and includes dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, acetylcholine and histamine
Neurotransmitters
Dealing with anxiety by reaching out to others
Altruism
Prolonged internal and external exposure to stressful events, situations, or experiences.
Chronic stress
Repetitive behaviors that are performed by the client with OCD to lessen or prevent anxiety brought on by their obsessions.
Compulsions
This type of violence has 3 phases: build-up, acute battering, and the honeymoon/reconciliation phase.
Intimate partner violence
This syndrome demonstrates symptoms such as headache, nausea, tremors, fatigue, achiness, and shock-like tingling sensations, as well as the most common symptom of difficulty sleeping.
Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndrome (ADS)