Anxiety 2

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%