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Anxiety disorders
NUR207 anxiety disorders
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Generalized Anxiety Disorder | worry about everything |
| panic disorder | periods of severe anxiety lasting about ten minutes |
| Agoraphobia | fear of a place or a situation |
| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | an anxiety disorder characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions) |
| Post Traumatic Stress Disorder | individual has experienced a traumatic event and is now re-experiencing it over and over |
| Social Phobia | fear of being embarrassed, or put on the spot |
| Somatization disorder | a long-term (chronic) condition in which a person has physical symptoms that involve more than one part of the body, but no physical cause can be found |
| Conversion Disorder | can’t see, hear, speak, feel, move, and occasionally have seizures. No physiological cause |
| Hypochondriasis | patient incorrectly believes they have a serious illness |
| Body Dysmorphic Disorder | a body image disturbance |
| Pain Disorder | presence of pain in one or more body parts, no physiological etiology |