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| Universal experience; feeling of apprehension, uneasiness, uncertainly or dread resulting from a real or perceived threat whose actual source is unknown or unrecognized. |
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| ability to perceive is in sharp focus and problem solving becomes more efficient. Helpful anxiety. |
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| Problem-solving ability is reduced. May improve with support person. Physical symptoms include: tension, pounding heart, increased pulse, rr, and diaphoresis. |
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| Learning and problem solving are not possible. Person may be dazed and confused and experience sense of doom. |
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| Markedly disturbed behavior. Inability to process environmental stimuli. Hallucinations probable. Physical behavior is erratic, uncoordinated, and impulsive. |
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| Interventions for Severe/Panic anxiety |
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| The nurse is concerned about client safety and the safety of others. Physical needs MUST be met to prevent exhaustion. Quiet environment the best. Meds and restraints may be used. |
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| Social phobias may well b related to noradrenergic dysfunction. Persistent irrational fears of specific objects, activity, or social situation. |
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| Obsessions are thoughts, impulses, or images that persist and recur and that cannot be dismissed from the mind. Compulstions are ritualistic behaviors that one feels driven to perform to reduce anxiety. |
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| Repeated or re-experiencing of a highly traumatic event involving threatened death and actual or threatened injury to which the person responded with intense fear or helplessness. Symptoms begin 3 months after the incident and include flashbacks, numbness, detachment and increased arousal. |
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| Interventions for anxiety disorders |
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Indentify community resources that can offer the client effective therapy.
2. Identify community support groups
3. Assess need for interventions for families and significant others.
4. Provide thorough teaching when meds are used. |
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| Nurse assists the client to identify automatic negative anxiety-arousing thoughts and negative self-talk, discover the basis for the thoughts, and assist the client to appraise the situation realistically and replace automatic thoughts and negative self-talk with realistic thinking. |
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| Systematic Desensatization/Graduated Exposure |
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| Gradually introduces the client to a phobic object or situation in a predetermined sequence of least to most frightening. |
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| Calls for the client to shout "Stop" or snap a rubber band on the wrist whenever an obsessive thought begins. |
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| Tricyclics: Tofranil (Imipramine), Desipramine,and Clomipramine(Anafranil). |
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| Used to treat panic attacks and PTSD (Clomipramine for OCD). |
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