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Module 49: anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive and related disorders, trauma and stressor related disorders, and somatic symptom and related disorders

Anxiety disorders

A group of disorders characterized by excessive fear and an anxiety and related maladaptive behaviors

Social anxiety disorder

Intense fear, and avoidance of social situations

Generalized anxiety disorder

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

Panic disorder

An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minute lungs episodes of intense shred, and which a person makes experience, terror and accompany, chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations often followed by worry over a possible next attack

Specific phobia

An anxiety disorder marched by a persistent, rational, fear, and avoidance of a civic object, activity, or stim situation

Obsessive compulsive disorder OCD

I disorder, characterized by unwanted and repetitive thoughts, obsessions, actions, compulsions, or both

Post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD

A disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, hypervigilance, avoidance of trauma related, stimuli, social withdrawal, anxiety, numbness of feeling, and or insomnia the linger for four weeks or more after traumatic traumatic experience

Trauma and stress related disorders

A group of disorders in which exposure to a traumatic or stressful event is followed by psychological distress

Somatic Symptom disorder

A psychological disorder, and which the symptoms take a somatic bodily form without an appearant physical cause

Illness anxiety disorder

A disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease formally called hypochondriasis

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Module 49: anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive and related disorders, trauma and stressor related disorders, and somatic symptom and related disorders

Anxiety disorders

A group of disorders characterized by excessive fear and an anxiety and related maladaptive behaviors

Social anxiety disorder

Intense fear, and avoidance of social situations

Generalized anxiety disorder

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

Panic disorder

An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minute lungs episodes of intense shred, and which a person makes experience, terror and accompany, chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations often followed by worry over a possible next attack

Specific phobia

An anxiety disorder marched by a persistent, rational, fear, and avoidance of a civic object, activity, or stim situation

Obsessive compulsive disorder OCD

I disorder, characterized by unwanted and repetitive thoughts, obsessions, actions, compulsions, or both

Post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD

A disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, hypervigilance, avoidance of trauma related, stimuli, social withdrawal, anxiety, numbness of feeling, and or insomnia the linger for four weeks or more after traumatic traumatic experience

Trauma and stress related disorders

A group of disorders in which exposure to a traumatic or stressful event is followed by psychological distress

Somatic Symptom disorder

A psychological disorder, and which the symptoms take a somatic bodily form without an appearant physical cause

Illness anxiety disorder

A disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease formally called hypochondriasis