Anxiety Disorders

• vague feeling of dread or apprehension;

  anxiety
• a response to external or internal stimuli that can have behavioral, emotional, cognitive, & physical symptoms

  anxiety
• comprise a group of conditions that share a key feature of

  excessive anxiety with ensuing behavioral, emotional, cognitive, and physiological responses

  anxiety disorders
• the wear and tear that life causes on the body

  stress
• Anxiety in response to stress


  alert, resistance, exhaustion
• causes uncomfortable cognitive, psychomotor, and physiological responses, such as difficulty with logical thought, increasingly agitated motor activity, and elevated vital signs

  anxiety
• response to anxiety 


  positive & negative
• __ response to anxiety causes maldaptive behavior

  negative
• wide perceptual field: level of anxiety

  mild anxiety
• sharpened sense: level of anxiety 


  mild
• increased motivation: level of anxiety 


  mild
• effective problem solving: level of anxiety

  mild
• increased learning ability: level of anxiety

  mild
• irritability: level of anxiety

  mild
• restlessness: level of anxiety 


  mild
• Butterfly: level of anxiety

  mild
• Difficulty of sleeping: level of anxiety

  mild
• hypersensitivity to noise: level of anxiety

  mild
• Perceptual field narrowed to immediate task: level of anxiety 


  moderate
• selectively attentive: level of anxiety: level of anxiety 


  moderate
• cannot connect thoughts or events independently

  moderate
• cannot connect thoughts or events independently: level of anxiety

  moderate
• increased use of automatisms: level of anxiety

  modrate
• muscle tension, diaphoresis, pounding pulse, head ach, drymouth, high voice pitch, faster speech, GI upset, frequent urination

  moderate
• cannot complete tasks and solve problems independently: level of anxiety 


  moderate
• perceptual field reduced focused to self: level of anxiety 


  severe
• doesn't respond to redirection, feels awa, cries, ritualstic behavior: level of anxiety

  severe
• chestpain, tachycardia, pale


  severe
• loss of rational thought: level of anxiety 


  panic
• mute, delusions, hallucinations: level of anxiety 


  panic
• suicidal: level of anxiety 


  panic
• Increased BP


  Panic
• Fight, Flight or Freeze: level of anxiety

  panic
• intense fear of being in a place where it seems hard to escape

  agoraphobia
• intense fear that brings on a panic attack.

  panic disorder
• panics are: 


  sudden, unexpected, situationally bound
• -fear of a specific object or

  situation.

  specific phobia
• overwhelmed worry and self-consciousness about everyday social situations; obsessive worry about others judgment or being embarrassed or ridiculed.

  Social Anxiety Disorder
• excessive, unrealistic worry and tension with

  little or no reason

  generalized anxiety disorder
• • Restlessness Fatigue
  • • Irritability
  • • Decreased ability to concentrate
  • • Muscle tension
  • • Disturbed sleep