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Abnormal psychology- Anxiety Disorders

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Fear   innate almost biologically based response to a dangerous or life-threatening situation.  
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Anxiety   More future-oriented and global (than fear), referring to the state in which an individual is inordinately apprehensive, tense, and uneasy about the prospect of something.  
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Anxiety Disorders   Incapacitated by chronic and intense feelings so strong that they are unable to function on a day-to-day basis.  
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Panic Disorder   People experience panic attacks, periods of intense fear, and physical discomfort, in which they feel overwhelmed and terrified by a range of bodily sensations that causes them to feel they're loosing control (shortness of breath, dizziness, sweating).  
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Unexpected (uncued) Panic Attack   No situational cue or trigger.  
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Situationally Bound (cued) Panic attack   Happens in anticipation of confronting a particular situation or immediately following exposure to a specific stimulus or cue in the environment.  
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Agoraphobia   Intense anxiety about being trapped, stranded or embarrassed in a situation without help if a panic attack were to occur.  
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Anxiety Sensitivity Theory   People with panic disorders tend to interpret cognitive and somatic manifestations of stress and anxiety in a catastrophic manner.  
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Benzodiazepines   Anxiety medications that bind to receptor sites of GABA neurons.  
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Combined Fear Reactants   Individuals associates certain bodily cessations with memories of the last panic attack, causing full blown one even before it happens leading to avoidance behavior.  
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Relaxation Training   Used in panic disorder and agoraphobia. Client learns systematically to alternate tensing and relaxing muscles all over the body.  
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Panic Control Therapy (PCT)   The development of the awareness of bodily cues associated with panic attacks and breathing restraining.  
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Aversions   Responses of discomfort or dislike.  
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Specific Phobia   Irrational and unbating fear of a particular object, activity, or situation that provokes an immediate anxiety response.  
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Flooding   The client is totally immersed in the sensation of anxiety rather than being more gradually acclaimed to the feared situation.  
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Imaginal Flooding   Imagine what scenes look like. Exposure to threatening situations while in a safe context will condition the client to confront the target of phobia without feeling unduly anxious.  
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Graduated Exposure   Clients initially confront situations that cause only minor anxiety and then gradually progress toward those that cause greater anxiety.  
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Thought Stopping   Individual learns to stop anxiety-provoking thoughts.  
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Social Phobia   Tremendous anxiety in speaking in front of a group and also in virtually all situations in which others might be observing them.  
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder   Constant feature of everyday life. Applies to a category of anxiety-related experiences.  
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Obsessions   Persistent and intrusive idea, thought, impulse, or image.  
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Compulsion   A repetitive and seemingly purposeful behavior performed in response to uncontrollable urges according to a ritualistic or stereotyped set of rules.  
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OCD   Either or both recurrent obsessions and compulsions that interfere significantly with the individual's way of life.  
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Acute Stress Disorder   Individual develops feelings of intense fear, helplessness, or horror soon after a traumatic event.  
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PTSD   Acute stress disorder that persists for more than a month.  
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Traumatic Experience   Disastrous or an extremely painful event that has severe psychological and physiological effects.  
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