And here comes the list

Anxiety Disorders are psychological

disorders characterized by

distressing, persistent anxiety.

This is not real!

An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal

Free-Floating-A person cannotidentify/avoid the stressor

Symptoms: Often jittery, Agitated, Sleep deprived, Difficulty concentrating,

Depressed Mood, Twitching eyelids,

Trembling, Perspiration, Fideting

An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror, chest pain, chocking, numbness or other frightening sensationsSmokers have double the risk of panic

disorder[I remember feeling] hot and as though I couldn’t breathe. My heart was racing and I started to sweat & tremble and I was sure I was going to faint. Then my fingers started to feel numb and tingly & things seemed unreal. It was so bad I wondered if I was dying…

Anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situationSpecific phobias focus on one thing

People tend to avoid that situation or particular thing

Social Phobias is basically shyness taken to the extreme Intense fear of being scrutinized by

others, avoid potentially embarrassing social situations, or will sweat, tremble, or have diarrhea when doing so

Agoraphobia Fear or avoidance of situations in which

escape might be difficult or help unavailable when panic strikes

GeneticsMartin Seligman concluded that humans

seem biologically prepared to acquire fears of certain animals and situations that were important survival threats in evolutionary history.

Specific eventsSpecific events can trigger a phobia

Here are a few examples of phobias…

FelinophobiaFear of cats

RussophobiaFear of Russians

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia Fear of long words

An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions).

A person acts out compulsions in response to an obsession to lower the anxiety and release the stress that can build up.

Crosses the line from normality to disorder when thoughts/actions persistently interfere with

everyday living and cause the person distress. Obsessive thoughts and compulsive behavior

become so ritualistic that effective functioning becomes impossible.2-3% cross the line during their teens or early

twenties

Once called shell-shock or battle fatigue PTSD is an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal,jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for severalweeks or more after a traumatic experience

PTSD is also experienced by survivors of accidents, disasters, and violent/sexual assaults In a survey of 100,000 veterans of Iraq or

Afghanistan, 1in 4 were diagnosed with a psychological disorder, most frequently PTSD 20% of U.S. suicides are veterans In 2012 among active duty soldiers, 1 suicide per day.

After calling in a helicopter strike on one house where I had seen

ammunition crates carried in, I heard the

screams of children from within…

Research shows that the greater one’s trauma or distress during the event, the higher percentage of developing PTSDAlso, a sensitive limbic system seems to

be correlated as it releases stress hormones again and again as images of the traumatic experience erupt into consciousness

Learning perspective Fear conditioning

Two specific learning processes contribute to anxiety Stimulus generalization Reinforcement

Observational LearningBiological Perspective

Natural Selection: fear threats face by ancestors

Genetics: researchers are examining neurotransmitters that influence an “anxiety gene”

Some psychologists feel PTSD has been over diagnosed due to the broadening definition of traumaDebriefing after the traumatic event can

actually do more harm than goodSuffering can lead to benefit finding

Post-traumatic growth: positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises Calhoun found that struggling with a crises

often leads people to report an increases appreciation for life This idea is found in many religions