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A mood state characterized by marked neg. affect and bodily symptoms of tension; person fears future danger or misfortune. May involve feelings, behaviors, and physiological responses
What is Anxiety?
The emotion of an immediate alarm reaction to present danger or emergency.
What is fear?
Urge to pull out their own hair from anywhere on the body.
What is trichotillomania?
Abrupt experience of intense fear/discomfort accompanied by physical symptoms.
What is a panic attack?
Causes an immediate alarm and escape response resembling panic.
What is the fight/flight/freeze response?
disorder characterized by intense, uncontrollable, chronic worry that is distressing and unproductive. Accompanied by tenseness, irritability, and restlessness.
What is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)?
Recurrent unexpected ___ attacks accompanied by concern about future attacks and/or a lifestyle change to avoid future attacks.
What is panic disorder?
Disorder characterized by anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult in the event of panic symptoms. Could lead to isolation.
What is agoraphobia?
Unreasonable fear of a specific object or situation that interferes with daily life functioning.
What is specific phobia?
Unreasonable fear and avoidance of exposure to blood, injury, or an injection. Could experience fainting and drop in BP.
What is blood-injection-injury phobia?
An anxiety involving enclosed places or public transportation.
ex. claustrophobia and fear of flying
What is situational phobia?
Fear of situations or events in nature.
ex. Heights, storms, and water
What is natural environment phobias?
Excessive, eduring fear that harm will come to them or their loved ones when they are apart.
What is separation anxiety disorder?
Extreme, enduring, irrational fear and avoidance of social or performance situations.
What is social anxiety disorder (SAD)?
Enduring, distressing disorder that follows exposure to a traumatic event. Individual can reexperience the trauma, avoid triggers, and develop numbness of responsiveness and an increased vigilance and arousal.
What is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
Brain circuit in the limbic system that responds to threat signals by inhibiting anxiety and causing anxiety.
What is the behavioral inihibition system (BIS)
Severe reaction immediately following a terrifying event. Can include amnesia about the event, emotional numbing, and derealization.
What is acute stress disorder?
Prolonged adaptation to loss associated with intense longing for and preoccupation with the deceased; unable to move on after a year or more.
What is prolonged grief disorder?
Clinically significant emotional and behavioral symptoms in response to one or more specific stressors.
What are adjustment disorders?
Developmentally inappropriate behaviors in which a child is unable to form normal attachment relationships with caregiving adults.
What are attachment disorders?
CBT for panic attacks, involving gradual exposure to feared somatic sensations and modification of perceptions and attitudes about them.
What is panic control treatment (PCT)?
Condition in which a child shows no inhibitions whatsoever in approaching adults.
What is disinhibited social engagement disorder?
Disorder involving unwanted, persistent, intrusive thoughts and impulses, as well as repetitive actions to suppress them.
What is obessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
Disorder featuring a disruptive preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance.
What is body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)?
Recurrent, difficult-to-control picking of one's skin to significant impairment or distress.
What is excoriation?