No ability to problem solve
- feeling of "doom"
- tachycardia
Severe anxiety
- hyperventilation
- rapid speech
- unresponsive
Loses touch with reality (disturbed behaviors)
- dilated pupils
- hallucinations
Panic anxiety
- severe withdrawal
- immobility
- severe shakiness
Freud
Who came up with the
Adaptive: helps to lower anxiety to achieve goal
theory of defenses against
Maladaptive: used chronically and leads tp ineffective
anxiety?
problem solving
- altered cognition
What is psychosis? - altered perception
- impaired ability to determine reality
Defense mechanism: "justify"
rationalization
, Defense mechanism: "stuffing"
suppression - stuffing it down, but still conscious of it
Defense mechanism: "refuse"
denial
"shifting"
Defense mechanism:
- you are mad at your husband, but you come home
displacement
and kick the dog
"reverse"
Defense mechanism:
- you're the only one doing a bad thing, but you're
projection
blaming it on someone else
Defense mechanism: "helping"
Altruism (+) - helping others to avoid the problem
"opposite"
Defense mechanism:
-you don't like someone, but you pretend you do to
reaction formation
their face
"removal"
Defense mechanism:
- removing that memory, don't remember or
repression
conscious of it
Defense mechanism: "cancels"
undoing - abusive spouse beats wife, then he gets her flowers
"backwards"
Defense mechanism:
- going backwards in the normal developmental age
regression
(sucking thumb, wetting the bed)
"covering"
Defense mechanism:
- covering up any feelings of inadequacy (big truck =
compensation
tiny penis)
"substitution"
Defense mechanism:
- angry and you use that anger to go running, punch
sublimation (+)
the bag
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