Anxiety Disorders, OCD & PTSD

What do we call non-specific anxiety disorder?

• phobia

• GAD

• panic attacks

1. A type of anxiety disorder wherein the individual worries too much, and unable to control this focus on worry, with clinical manifestations such as, uneasiness, fatigue, irritability and restlessness.

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

• Panic Disorder

• Phobic Disorder

2. Composed of discrete episodes of attack, that is rapid, intense, escalating anxiety in which the person experiences great emotional fear as well as physiologic discomfort.

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

• Panic Disorder

• Phobic Disorder

6. These are recurrent, persistent, intrusive, and unwanted thoughts, images, or impulses that caused marked anxiety and interfere with interpersonal, social, and occupational function.

• Obsessions

• Compulsions

• Anxiety

• Fear

Dominic is intensely afraid of ants; he goes into a panic whenever he sees one. Dominic appears to suffer from

• stress

• a phobia

• schizophrenia

• hypochondriasis

Before she leaves her house, Edith checks the locks on each door at least ten times. Such repetition of irrational actions is called a(n) ______________

• Obsession

• Compulsion

A person suffering from _____________ re-experiences a catastrophe in the form of flashbacks or nightmares.

• OCD

• GAD

• PTSD

Irrational fear of public place is called ...

(a)  

Marty can't stop thinking about his house after leaving for work--did he unplug the iron? Did he turn off the stove? These thoughts that bother him all day are a(n):

• Obsession

• Compulsion

Maria sometimes starts to feel like she is having a heart attack when she is driving. She pulls over because she is short of breath and her chest is aching. She calls 911, but when the paramedics arrive, they tell her that nothing is wrong with her heart. Maria's symptoms point to

• generalized anxiety disorder

• panic disorder

• obsessive-compulsive disorder

• social phobia