Now That's What I Call Anxiety
For a person to be diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) they must be experiencing symptoms for at least this amount of time.
What is six months?
The textbook classifies these as persistent thoughts, ideas, impulses, or images that are experienced repeatedly, feel intrusive, and cause anxiety.
What are obsessions? (*Hint* Know the difference between obsessions and compulsions)
Previously called combat fatigue and "shell shock", this disorder is characterized by a person experiencing fear and related symptoms long after enduring a traumatic event.
What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Those diagnosed with bipolar I and bipolar II both experience major depressive episodes; however, the distinction between the two diagnoses is found in the ways that they experience these other kinds of episodes, which are characterized by breathless feelings of euphoria.
What are Manic Episodes (Mania)? (*Hint*: Know the difference between Bipolar I, Bipolar II, and Cyclothymic Disorder)
The Mona Lisa was painted by this 15th century Renaissance man.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This disorder is characterized by recurrent and often unpredictable panic attacks.
What is Panic Disorder?
The most commonly used biological treatments for OCD are prescribing these types of drugs, specifically ones that are designed to increase serotonin activity.
What are antidepressants?
Experts agree that this concept is key to one's sense of identity, and that working to restore it can improve outcomes for those with dissociative disorders.
What is Memory?
While somewhat controversial, this former controlled substance and party drug, has recently gained FDA approval for people with treatment-resistant depression.
What is Ketamine (Eskatamine)?
The states of matter are solid, liquid, gas, and this lesser known fourth state, which is actually the most abundant form in the known universe.
What is plasma?
This anxiety disorder, previously only diagnosed in children, has been disputed by some clinicians as not being a legitimate diagnosis for adults.
What is Separation Anxiety Disorder (SAD)?
This disorder, which is derived from the Greek for "frenzied-hair pulling", involves a person repeatedly pulling hair from their scalp, eyebrows, eyelashes, or other body parts.
What is Trichotillomania (Hair-Pulling Disorder)?
The primary symptoms of this disorder are recurrent episodes where a person feels that one's mental functioning or body are unreal or detached and/or a sense that one's surroundings are unreal or detached.
What is Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder (DPDR)?
The most common biological treatment for bipolar disorders are these types of drugs, which includes lithium.
What are Mood-Stabilizing Drugs?
This country consumes the most chocolate per capita.
What is Switzerland?
This disorder, characterized by a fear of being in public situations where escape may be difficult, was previously included in the specific phobias category but is now its own diagnosable disorder.
What is Agoraphobia?
This common CB treatment for OCD involves the clinician allowing the participant to come in contact with the anxiety inducing stimulus/stimuli, and then blocking them from engaging in the compulsion(s).
What is Exposure and Response Prevention (Exposure and Ritual Prevention)?
The parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems are included in this larger network of nerves that connects the central nervous system to all other organs in the body.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)? (*Hint*: Know these systems and their functions)
Lower levels of these TWO neurotransmitters have been been strongly linked to depression, but more recently research has shifted to glutamate interactions also showing a strong link.
What are norepinephrine and serotonin?
Hannah, racecar, kayak, "step on no pets", "yo, banana boy", and "was it a cat I saw?", are all examples of what english term used to describe something spelled the same forwards as it is backwards.
What is a palindrome?
While this is not always the case, many clinical-behavioral theorists propose that phobias develop via these two mechanisms.
What are Classical Conditioning and Modeling? (*Hint*: Do have an understanding of these two things and how they relate to phobias and anxiety in general)
While the textbook uses the term obsessive-compulsive-related disorders to describe hoarding, hair pulling, skin picking, and body dysmorphic disorder, the female host of the Ted Talk used this term to describe them.
What are Body Focused Repetitive Behavioral Disorders?
This treatment for a multitude of different disorders covered in this unit involves participants moving their eyes in a rhythmic manner from side to side, while the clinician projects visual stimuli that the person may typically try to avoid. (*Hint* The girl with DPDR was doing this with her therapist in the video that we watched).
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)?
Martin Seligman, who first conducted experiments on dogs in the 1960s, is credited with creating this theory that changed how many clinicians viewed and treated those struggling with depression.
What is the Learned Helplessness Theory of Depression (Learned Helplessness)?
The acronym NASA stands for this.
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?