Comprehensive Anxiety, Dissociative, and Trauma Disorders Overview

fear

emotion of an immediate alarm reaction to present danger

panic

sudden overwhleming fright or terror

panick attack

abrupt expreince accompanied by physical symtoms

3 copenents of the intergrated model contributed to anxiety

1. biologicsl vunlerability

2. gerneralized psychological vulnerability

3. specific psychological vulnerability

GAD from other anxiety disorders

People who worry about minor everyday events

Obsesions

recurrent intrusive thoughts or impulses

Compulsions

Repetitive, ritualistic time consuming behaviors

Best treatment for OCD

SSRIs

3 truama related disorders

1. acute stress disorder: immediatly after a trauma

2. PTSD post 6 months

3. Adjestment disorder: negative response to non T trauma

4 symptom clusters of PTSD

Reexperiencing, avoidance, hyperarousal, &

negative moods/cognitions

Panic control treatment

Cognitve behaviorial treatment for panic attacks

Bulimia nervosa

eating disorder involving recurrent episodes of uncontrolled must include excessive and compensatory actions

2 subtypes of anorexia

!. Restricting type

2. Binge-eating-purging type

Illness anxiety disorder

Characterized by anxiety or fear

Derealization

Situation in which the individual loses a sense of the reality of the external world

Depersonalization

Occurs when you feel that your seeing yourself from outside your body or you sense that things around you are not real or both

Dissociative amnesia

The inability to recall personal Information, usually of a stressful or traumatic nature

Generlized amnesia

Loss of memory of all personal infromation

Localized amnesia

Memory loss limited to specific times and events particulary traumatic events.

Dissociative fugue

type of dissociative amnesia featuring sudden, unexpected travel away from home, along with an inability to recall the past, sometimes with assumption of a new identity

Alters

Shorthand tkerm for alter egos, the different personalities or identities in DID

What leads DID disorder

Chronic childhood trauma and abuse