Anxiety 2
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Status: v103 Time: 2025-03-13 Tags: lecturenotes Links:Mental Illness & Disorders
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Rambles: social anxiety disorder fear that they will be observed and judged social situations almost always provoke fear and anxiety paradox of social anxiety anxious about anxious symptoms showing and being judged develops from shyness hyper-vigilance
prevalence: 3-13% in community 10-20% in clinics tries to avoid being noticed or standing out
generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)
just gets really anxious really quickly about things 3 or more of followin: on edge easily fatigued cant concentrate irritable muscel tension sleep disturbance
eg watched a video about a tsunami worried about tsunamis constantly and uncontrollable
excessive worry
Type 1 worry useful positive
type 2 harmful. not useful
PTSD exposure to trauma potentially traumatising event
excessive worry about anything relating to that unwanted reliving of event
exposure to traumatic event
lifetime prevalence of 8%
OCD unwanted instrusive thoughts obsessions or compulsions
engage in rituals to manage anxiety about obsessions and compulsions
needs to be time consuming 2.3%