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| Mood state characterized by marked negative affect and bodily symptoms of tension in which a person apprehensively anticipates future danger or misfortune. Anxiety may involve feelings, behaviors, and physiological responses. |
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| Emotion of an immediate alarm reaction to present danger or life-threatening emergencies. |
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| Sudden, overwhelming fright or terror. |
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| Abrupt experience of intense fear or discomfort accompanied by several physical symptoms, such as dizziness or heart palpitations. |
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Behavioral Inhibition System
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| Brain circuit in the limbic system that responds to threat signals by inhibiting activity and causing anxiety. |
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| Brain circuit in animals that when stimulated causes an immediate alarm-and-escape response resembling human panic. |
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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| Anxiety disorder characterized by intense, uncontrollable, unfocused, chronic, and continuous worry that is distressing and unproductive, accompanied by physical symptoms of tenseness, irritability, and restlessness. |
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Panic Disorder w/ Agoraphobia
PDA |
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| Fear and avoidance of situations the person believes might induce a dreaded panic attack. |
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| Anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult. |
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Panic Disorder w/o Agoraphobia
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| Panic attacks experienced without development of agoraphobia. |
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Panic Control Treatment
PCT |
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| Cognitive behavioral treatment for panic attacks, involving gradual exposure to feared somatic sensations and modification of perceptions and attitudes about them. |
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| Unreasonable fear of a specific object or situation that markedly interferes with daily life functioning. |
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| Blood-injury-injection Phobia |
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| Unreasonable fear and avoidance of exposure to blood, injury or the possibility of an injection. Victims experience fainting and a drop in blood pressure. |
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| Anxiety involving enclosed places (e.g.: claustrophobia) or public transportation (e.g.: fear of flying). |
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| Natural Environment Phobia |
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| Fear of situations or events in nature, especially heights, storms, and water. |
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| Unreasonable, enduring fear of animals or insects that usually develops early in life. |
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| Separation Anxiety Disorder |
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| Excessive, enduring fear in some children that harm will come to them or their parents while they are apart. |
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| Extreme, enduring, irrational fear and avoidance of social or performance situations. |
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD |
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| Enduring distressing emotional disorder that follows exposure to a severe helplessness or fear-inducing threat. The victim reexperiences the trauma, avoids stimuli associated with it, and develops a numbing of responsiveness and an increased vigilance and arousal. |
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| Severe reaction immediately following a terrifying event, often including amnesia about the event, emotional numbing, and derealization. Many victims later develop posttraumatic stress disorder. |
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Obsessive-compuslive Disorder
OCD |
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| Anxiety disorder involving unwanted, persistent, intrusive thoughts and impulses, as well as repetitive actions intended to suppress them. |
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| Recurrent intrusive thought or impulse the client seeks to suppress or neutralize while recognizing it is not imposed by outside forces. |
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| Repetitive, ritualistic, time-consuming behavior or mental act a person feels driven to perform. |
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