Diagnoses
Abbreviations
Anxiety Treatments
Medications
Odds and Ends
100
Disorder caused by exposure to life threatening situation.
What is PTSD?
100
PTSD
What is Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome?
100
Things that people with anxiety disorders often use to self-medicate themselves.
What are alcohol and drugs?
100
For most cases of anxiety disorder cognitive behavior therapy and this treatment approach are usually equally effective.
What are medications?
100
Fear is a normal instantaneous reaction to imminent threat. This feeling, however, is apprehension, avoidance, and cautiousness regarding a potential threat, danger, or other negative content.
What is anxiety?
200
This disorder has the initials GAD.
What is General Anxiety Disorder?
200
GAD
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
200
A graduated list of things related to a phobia that you are afraid of, from very mild fear to very intense fear.
What is a fear hierarchy?
200
In panic disorders these kinds of rates are high following the discontinuation of benzos and antidepressant medications.
What are relapse rates?
200
This name of this phobia is taken from the Greek for fear of the marketplace.
What is agoraphobia?
300
An irrational fear.
What is a phobia?
300
CBT
What is Cognitive Behavior Therapy?
300
This is a natural disaster that occurs when a levee breaks, but it is also the name of technique to treat a phobia in which the most frightening stimuli is presented first and all at once rather than gradually. It has also been called implosive therapy.
What is flooding?
300
Besides benzodiazepines, what other class of medications are often prescribed to treat generalized anxiety disorders. Hint: they ae also used for mood disorders.
What are antidepressants?
300
This the percentage range of the U.S. population who will have an anxiety disorder at some point in their lifetime.
What is 25% to 30%?
400
Fear of being around other people in the public eye.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
400
This resource from the American Psychological Association is called the DSM-5-TR.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 Text Revision?
400
Breathing through a straw can help prevent this respiratory symptom of Panic Disorder.
What is hyperventilation?
400
Beta Blockers are drugs that are commonly used to treat the heart and circulatory system. One of the most frequent off-label treatment uses is for these types of psychiatric disorders.
What are anxiety disorders?
400
This is a type of anxiety that is not attached to any specific situation, occurrence, or stimuli.
What is free floating anxiety?
500
Disorder which is characterized by an intense fear of being separated from a loved one or caregiver.
What is Separation Anxiety Disorder?
500
MMPI-3
What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3?
500
This woman was known as the mother of behavior therapy. She treated a young boy named Peter who had a fear of rabbits, using a technique called counter conditioning or systematic desensitization.
Who is Mary Cover Jones?
500
Xanax, Librium, Valium and Atavan are medications which fall into a class of drugs that are used to treat anxiety. This is the nickname for that class of medications and it rhymes with Bozos.
What are Benzos?
500
An anxiety related disorder which is characterized by consistent failure to speak in social situations.
What is Selective Mutism?
