What are some symptoms that OCD, PTSD and panic disorder have in common?
How "exposure" treatment might be helpful for treating each of these disorders. How does learning contribute to a person developing each disorder?
Of the three types of anxiety disorders which do you think would cause the most disruption in the way a person lived?
Tagged with: anxiety disorders • disruption • types of anxiety • types of anxiety disorders
Filed under: panic disorder
are you that lazy that you won’t take 10 minutes to look in a book and figure it out yourself?? you DO realize that 90% of people who answer on this site have no clue what they are talking about right?
do yourself and favor, do your own homework – if you are a psych major, this is stuff you are going to need to know to get into grad school – and trust me, grad school is a must unless you’d like to use your bachelors degree to wipe old peoples asses the rest of your life – because with today’s job market, that’s about all you can get without a master’s or higher.
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No-one – great cut and paste, how about citing the material instead of taking credit for someone elses work.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by either obsessions or compulsions:
Obsessions as defined by:
Recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress
The thoughts, impulses, or images are not simply excessive worries about real-life problems
The person attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, impulses, or images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action
The person recognizes that the obsessional thoughts, impulses, or images are a product of his or her own mind (not imposed from without as in thought insertion)
Compulsions as defined by:
Repetitive behaviors (e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (e.g., praying, counting, repeating words silently) that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, or according to rules that must be applied rigidly
The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing distress or preventing some dreaded event or situation; however, these behaviors or mental acts either are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent or are clearly excessive
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At some point during the course of the disorder, the adult has recognized that the obsessions or compulsions are excessive or unreasonable (not applicable to children).
The obsessions or compulsions cause marked distress, are time consuming (take more than 1 hour a day), or significantly interfere with the person’s normal routine, occupational (or academic) functioning, or usual social activities or relationships.
If another disorder is present, the content of the obsessions or compulsions is not restricted to it. The disturbance is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or a general medical condition.
The symptoms of PTSD include:
sleep problems including nightmares and waking early
flashbacks and replays which you are unable to switch off
impaired memory, forgetfulness, inability to recall names, facts and dates that are well known to you
impaired concentration
impaired learning ability (eg through poor memory and inability to concentrate)
hypervigilance (feels like but is not paranoia)
exaggerated startle response
irritability, sudden intense anger, occasional violent outbursts
panic attacks
hypersensitivity, whereby every remark is perceived as critical
obsessiveness – the experience takes over your life, you can’t get it out of your mind
joint and muscle pains which have no obvious cause
feelings of nervousness, anxiety
reactive depression (not endogenous depression)
excessive levels of shame, embarrassment
survivor guilt for having survived when others perished or for not having done more to help or save others
a feeling of having been given a second chance at life
undue fear
low self-esteem and shattered self-confidence
emotional numbness, anhedonia (inability to feel love or joy)
feelings of detachment
avoidance of anything that reminds you of the experience
physical and mental paralysis at any reminder of the experience
Specific Symptoms of Panic Disorder:
A person with panic disorder experiences recurrent unexpected Panic Attacks and at least one of the attacks has been followed by 1 month (or more) of one or more of the following:
Persistent concern about having additional attacks
Worry about the implications of the attack or its consequences (e.g., losing control, having a heart attack, "going crazy")
A significant change in behavior related to the attacks
Working in behavior, as I do, triggers a ton of odd ball ?’s like this, theories and curiosities. All of these disorders have at least 1 thing in common that I can think of, being the urgent, dying intensity over issues these types of people raise. To explain, lets say jo wants to be germ free(OCD) while patient PTSD wants to look pretty 4 the boys, and miss panic disorder wants every thing in her world neat and orderly ……All different diagnosis’s but very similiar to the eye behavior….which when not met….every one of these patients r cabable of a full scale negative behavior outburst of severe intensity. In general all 3 peeps can display obsession, determination, survival, and front cababilities (fake you out skills). One profound thing they all have in commom is charm, despite core level issues. All 3 have adjustment issues and coping issues. None like a sudden change of schedule and fair so much better by a concrete world, and black and white expressions. To say which one is the worst, is a toss up 4 me…I have dealt with all of them. Currently I deal with 2 PTSD and my OCD just moved out back a few months ago…I dealt with her for about 4 years. While panick disirder is last in yor listing, it causes a person alot of inescapable hell, and these people r just as miserable as someone with OCD, PTSD. I can’t stress enough, that proper education is the key. At eye level these 3 issues have lots in common, but on the page, they can look so different especially when u examine the person’s history, where they came from, how they lived, and were raised. Lifestyle and learning and especially the lack of learning definately composes a emmotional disability, I see it 5 days a week myself. Learning to reach beyond the disability, definately works, but it takes time, belief in the person and a very determined, strong will. I work in behavior modification in an institution, all though some will never gate out, some do. Some get it and never come back, some relapse for a variety of reasons. However I strongly believe that education is the key, with education some of my clients wouldn’r b where they r.