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Anxiety Disorders - Coggle Diagram
Anxiety Disorders
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Development of anxiety
Biological Processes:
- Genetic pre-disposition: Evidence from twin and family studies.
- Biochemical disturbance: Altered brain chemistry. Evidence from the fact that drugs can help some individuals.
- Substances: Some drugs can trigger anxiety attacks. E.g nicotine, caffeine
Basic Process Level
- Classical conditioning (learning by association). A stimulus becomes associated with a frightening event.
- Operant conditioning (learning by reward and punishment).
- Learning by imitation and modelling. Observing the anxiety of others in certain situations can lead to a person developing anxiety.
Socio-cultural factors
- The factors in the environment that can influence a person's level of anxiety.
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Phobic Disorder
- Is one where there is a persistent, excessive and irrational fear of an object or situation where is no real danger.
- Affects day to day functioning.
- Exposure to the phobic trigger can initiative physical symptoms.
- Suffers can feel sweating, poor motor control, rapid heart rate, low self-esteem- a belief they are cowardly, unable to cope, neurotic, pessimistic.
- Avoidance of places with the phobic trigger can also occur.
Panic Disorders
- Sudden and frightening period of excessive fear with extreme symptoms.
- Suffers can feel sweating, heart palpitations, trembling nausea, shortness of breathing, fear of dying/ choking, inability to cope with neurotic, pessimistic, avoidance of group or work colleagues
Obsessive-Compulsive
- Obsessions are thoughts that regularly enter the consciousness in a distressing way.
- Compulsions are actions that a person feels forced to carry out.
- A person with OCD has regular, uncontrollable, unwanted thoughts and urges to perform senseless rituals
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A level of worry, anxiety or fear that is beyond the everyday and accepted levels of anxiety seen in certain circumstances.