Basic Anxiety Facts
This is the minimum age requirement for diagnosing most anxiety disorders in children.
What is no minimum age (anxiety disorders can occur at any age) however many doctors do not diagnose children younger than 4 years old?
Generalized Anxiety Disorder requires excessive worry for most days during this minimum time period.
What is 6 months?
This anxiety disorder was formerly called "social phobia" in earlier diagnostic manuals.
What is social anxiety disorder?
This treatment approach has shown to be equally effective as medication for treating GAD.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This 2024 sequel from Pixar explores what happens when Riley is a teenager, and introduces new emotions like Anxiety and Ennui.
What is Inside Out 2
Anxiety disorders must cause significant distress or impairment in this area of functioning to be diagnosed.
What is daily life or social/occupational functioning?
Panic attacks reach their peak intensity within this many minutes of starting.
What is 10 minutes?
This anxiety disorder involves inability to speak in specific situations despite being able to speak elsewhere.
What is selective mutism?
This gentler exposure technique is based on the idea that fear and relaxation cannot coexist.
What is systematic desensitization?
In 2024, this R-rated superhero ensemble (yes, two in the title) broke the record for highest grossing R-rated film and stars a wise-cracking merc with the claws of another X-mutant.
What is Deadpool & Wolverine
This involves apprehension, avoidance, and cautiousness regarding a potential threat, danger, or other negative event.
What is Anxiety?
A Panic Attack a period of extreme fear or discomfort that develops abruptly and has what kinds of symptoms?
What are: Accelerated heart rate, Sweating, Trembling, Choking sensations, Hot flashes or chills,
Dizziness or lightheadedness, Fears of losing control or going crazy, Fears of dying.
An irrational debilitating fear of dentists.
What is dentophobia.
This humanistic treatment approach helps patients become less self-judgmental and more self-accepting.
What is client-centered therapy?
This 2025 American musical fantasy is a live-action reimagining of a beloved 1937 animated fairy tale, featuring stars Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot.
What is Snow White?
These three main neurotransmitters are specifically connected to anxiety according to biological research.
What are GABA, serotonin, and norepinephrine?
This disorder is characterized by many symptoms. Some symptoms include persistent and excessive worry about losing major attachment figures; Persistent and excessive worry about experiencing an untoward event; Persistent reluctance or refusal to go out, away from home, to school, to work, or elsewhere because of fear of separation
What is separation anxiety disorder?
In classical conditioning eliciting the same response through its association with the unconditioned stimulus is called what?
What is a conditioned response.
These medications that block certain receptors are sometimes used to treat panic disorder symptoms.
What are beta-blockers?
This 2024 franchise installment rides sandworms, giant worms, massive desert fights—and is the seventh highest-grossing film of that year.
What is Dune: Part Two
This brain structure, part of the limbic system, is primarily responsible for processing fear and anxiety responses.
What is the amygdala?
This condition experiences excessive, distressing, and persistent fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation (such as animals, enclosed spaces, elevators, or flying)
What is a phobia?
The scientific term for fear of dogs is this specific phobia.
What is cynophobia?
Three main treatments for Social Anxiety Disorder will include:
What are SSRIs (Zoloft or Paxil),
CBT, Exposure-based Cognitive Therapy
This is the complete title of the2025 film that is the eighth installment in a long-running spy/action franchise starring Tom Cruise
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