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Anxiety is more common that depression. True or false. - Answer-True. Anxiety is more common than depression. Anxiety: - Answer-A subjective, uncomfortable feeling of apprehension or dread that occurs in response to an external or internal stimuli and can result in physical, behavioral, cognitiv...

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Mental Health Exam (Anxiety Disorders)
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Anxiety is more common that depression. True or false. - Answer-True. Anxiety is more
common than depression.

Anxiety: - Answer-A subjective, uncomfortable feeling of apprehension or dread that
occurs in response to an external or internal stimuli and can result in physical,
behavioral, cognitive, psychological signs and symptoms.

What are the hallmarks of anxiety disorders? - Answer-EXCESSIVE ANXIETY AND
WORRY

Heart starts pounding, think you're going to have a heart attack. Hunger. Pain. These
are examples of what type of stimuli? - Answer-Internal stimuli

Tests, classwork piling up. These are examples of what type of stimuli? - Answer-
External stimuli

Normal anxiety - Answer--appropriate to situation, realistic in intensity, followed by a
relief pattern to reduce or prevent more anxiety.

HAVE COPING MECHANISMS

-can be dealt with, motivator for change, appropriate anxiety can be good.

A man walks in with a gun, your anxiety shoots up. This is what kind of threat? -
Answer-Observable threat

Boss calls you into the office, you think you might get into trouble. This is what kind of
threat? - Answer-Perceived threat

Pathological anxiety - Answer-Anxiety so disabling that daily functioning is greatly
affected.

Anxiety no longer functions as a signal for danger, but it become chronic and permeates
major portions of a person's life; can lead to maladaptive behavior such as ineffective
coping mechanisms and emotional disabilities.

What is the relationship between anxiety and perceptual field? - Answer-As the anxieTy
INCREASES the perceptual field DECREASES.

Mild anxiety - Answer--helps one deal constructively with stress

, -Person has a broad perceptual field- slight increase, increases ability to take in sensory
stimuli, helps us to learn more by taking in more

Moderate anxiety - Answer--remains alert but perceptual field narrows; selective
inattention

-Person is alert but the perceptual field narrows, focus on the central issue. Shut out the
periphery.

Severe anxiety - Answer--sensory perception greatly reduced

-perceptual field greatly decreases. Problem solving skills decrease. Any new stimuli
coming in begins to be overwhelming.

Panic - Answer--completely disruptive sensory field

-Person has a completely disrupted perceptual field. Impossible to think logically and be
goal directed, cant follow directions

Mild or moderate anxiety - Answer-helps us to cope and fuction and can help us to be
more productive.
(But as soon as you get to the severe and panic, that becomes crippling, less alert,
decreases ability to learn and think.

Types of Anxiety Disorders - Answer--Panic disorder
-Phobias
-Generalized Anxiety Disorder
-Obsesive-Compulsive Disorder
-PTSD
-Acute Stress Disorder

Panic Disorder - Answer-may or may not have a stimulus

characterized by recurrent attacks of severe anxiety lasting a few moments to an hour;
not a response to a specific stimulus but occur suddenly and spontaneously but can be
associated with certain situations

Need 4 other signs and symptoms to be categorized as a panic disorder

Signs and symptoms of a panic attack - Answer-Palpitations
Chest pains (usually stop within 20-30 min)
nausea
diarrhea
dyspnea
rapid pulse
feeling of suffocation

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