Guide to Dsm-iv Diagnoses: Anxiety Disorders
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Anxiety disorders are diagnosed when the people a feeling of constant fear and experience abnormal stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system (aka fight-or-flight response) despite the fact that there is no real threat or danger to the person and to the point that they interfere with their day to day lives.
We will look at each of the major anxiety disorders below, along with films that depict, some more successful than others, the symptoms. Specific phobia
By definition, a phobia is a fear of something specific. The fear that something has become so common that the person may with the fear, the thing’s name, description, or even to respond to caricatures or cartoons of him.
Phobias are divided into five categories:
1st Animal Art – snakes, spiders, dogs, rats fall, bats and other animals in that category.
2nd give natural environment – these are caused by things found in nature: storms, fire, heights, darkness, large bodies of water, etc.
3rd Situational type – these are triggered by a particular situation such as dealing with bridges, elevators, flying, dentists, tunnels, etc.
4th Blood-injection-injury type – needles, blood and injuries are the most common blood-injection-injury type of phobia, and this type is different from others is the fact that people are much more weakly with this type of phobia, when confronted with the feared stimulus
5th Other Art – concerns that do not fit the other four categories can be found here, including the fear of choking, vomiting or clowns nice (as I this together, right?), Dignity to go here.
** Movies portray that phobias: The Truman Show, dizziness, Arachnophobia
** Note: Even though Indiana Jones is everyone’s favorite example of someone with an animal-phobic nature, he actually is not nearly enough to be afraid of snakes with a diagnosis of phobia.
Remember in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indy go down into the Well of Souls, is to find the Ark? He may hate snakes, but it works very well for them. If he had a real phobia, it would not be able to think clearly, let alone help Sallah Get the ark, or look for a flight to Marion is sealed to him. Generalized anxiety disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a persistent problem with “free floating” anxiety, that is, with anxiety, that is not everything, as it may be appropriate “hang dog in someone with a phobia of dogs. People with GAD often have many small stressors, what the psychologists call “anger”, together in their lives.
** Movies portray that GAD: Annie Hall, Analyze This, Manhattan OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by obsessions (thoughts and feelings of fear, that does not go away), the easier of constraints (ritual practices that defense caused by the obsession of fear).
Psychologists originally thought that OCD was existential or symbolic. They believed, for example, that fears of germs and compulsive washing were thought to be because the person felt somehow dirty, dirty, or contaminated.
Although some OCD may, in fact, symbolic or existential, it seems many people have a strong biological component. Drugs that increase the brain chemical serotonin seem to reduce OCD symptoms significantly in many patients.
** Films portray OCD: As Good As It Gets, Matchstick MenPANIC DISORDER
Panic disorder is when people diagnosed with repeated panic attacks. The best way to imagine what a panic attack, as if you’ve never had to imagine that the next door open whether, in your pantry or your office, a rabid, starved grizzly bear is behind him.
Your body will blast adrenaline in your veins, which extend to your students, to hammer your heart to speed up your breathing and sweating palms. You can subjectively feel that the time had “slowed down” so that all move in slow motion. The bear may be cartoonish, or you could as you saw yourself to feel panic from the outside. (Both the last two sentences describe forms of dissociation called derealization and depersonalization, respectively).
Now you find that the reaction without moving from where ever you read this. You are only read along, no angry Grizzly meets in sight and the feeling you. Worse, because there is no obvious trigger, you worry that you have to be crazy and that if you in your instinct to run, screaming, crying in a ball, or to fight, people think you’re crazy.
Well, this is a panic attack. Panic disorder with agoraphobia
Agoraphobia is a fear in a public place, be it from the embarrassing or difficult to escape would be caught. (People are often inaccurate taught that “the fear of open spaces,” but it literally means “fear of the marketplace, and it means the fear has to do with the potential for embarrassing to oneself in public.)
Panic disorder with or without agoraphobia diagnosed. Perhaps you can see why the fear of behaving strangely in public, if the basis of a panic attack hits, seemingly out of nowhere, in a place where other people see how the person feels like wildfire could.
** Movies portray that panic attacks: copycat, Benny and Joon (has the character, schizophrenia, but she experienced a panic attack on a bus near the end of the movie) Post-traumatic stress disorder
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is caused by an experience where you felt fear and helplessness, because your life, safety or physical integrity – or the love of someone you – were caused in a terrible and imminent danger (or believed they were ).
Rape and war are two of the most common causes of PTSD, to know something that another person is something you seem sadistic “overload” of the brain and permanently kick it in ‘fight or flight “mode.
People with PTSD experience ongoing anxiety in the form of feelings of threat or anxiety, panic attacks, nightmares, flashbacks and a hyperactive startle reflex. They can tell you, they feel like their skin crawl, or how they are “on the ceiling with” fear.
If you ever get a really scary movie I saw that nervousness you feel like it – where every little noise makes you think a serial killer is out and about to be come crashing through the window – a very, very mild example of what someone with PTSD experience almost constant.
** Movies portray that PTSD: Fearless, Saving Private Ryan, No Escape on the Fourth of July Born, The Deer Hunter
