Anxiety Disorders
In this anxiety disorder, persons grow fearful of leaving their homes or being in public (often accompanied by having panic attacks).
What is Agoraphobia?
This is the general name for medications designed to treat anxiety disorders.
What are anxiolytics (or anti-anxiety drugs)?
This emotion is common for persons with PTSD, in which they feel distress that they lived through an event that was fatal for someone else.
What is survivor guilt?
PTSD patients might be given this treatment, in which they approach things that remind them of the trauma (in real life or through Virtual Reality).
What is Exposure therapy?
People who are afraid of public speaking, for fear of making a mistake or embarrassing themselves, may have this disorder.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
This treatment for anxiety is intended to challenge and change a person's irrational, anxious thoughts.
What is cognitive therapy?
This term refers to each of the "multiple personalities" experienced by those with DID.
What are "alters?"
This treatment can help reduce symptoms of PTSD, but will not "cure" the condition.
What is medication?
Exposure therapy is the most common and effective treatments for this anxiety disorder.
What is specific phobia?
Persons with anxiety may try to "self-medicate" with drugs or alcohol, but research tells us that this practice tends to have *this* effect on anxiety.
What is "it increases anxiety?"
These are the three *sets* of symptoms that persons with PTSD usually experience.
What are Re-experiencing, Hyper-arousal, and Avoidance?
This treatment is helpful for permitting Acute Stress and PTSD patients to change the way they think about their trauma.
What is cognitive restructuring/cognitive therapy?
Persons with this anxiety disorder often experience "free floating anxiety," not attached to a specific trigger.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Perhaps unexpectedly, *these* kinds of medications are fairly effective for persons with OCD.
What are antidepressants (SSRIs)?
Persons with this condition will suddenly lose their memory/identity, move to a new location, and start a new life.
What is dissociative fugue state?
This somewhat controversial treatment involves having the patient watch a moving object with their eyes, while talking about their trauma.
What is EMDR? (eye movement desensitization & reprocessing)
In all anxiety disorders, *this* part of the nervous system gets activated.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This treatment is effective for OCD, placing patients in anxious situations, but keeping them from doing their compulsive behaviors.
What is Exposure & Response Prevention?
This kind of dissociative amnesia occurs when a person loses memory of the trauma -- and everything that happened before it.
What is generalized dissociative amnesia?
This is the final step in treating someone with Dissociative Identity Disorder.
What is integrating the alters into one personality, also called "fusion?"