...impacts anxiety in women? The topic of my Indivisual Research is Health and I have chosen to focus specifically on Anxiety and the physical effects it has on a womans health. I have chosen this topic because I feel Being a girl I feel that women should be aware of this so that they can learn to overcome such problems. What is also an issue is that many people suffering with anxiety treat it as a normal thin when in reality its something worse. People don’t seem to realize they have nxiety and don’t take it seriously therefore they don’t feel the need to visit a doctor and get help, this worsens the anxiety and creates more problems in the long run. Women are twice as likely to have an anxiety...
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...Anxiety, Mood, Somatoform Disorders PSY 410 December 12, 2011 R. Keith Franklin LPC.S Anxiety, Mood, Somatoform Disorders The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is a reference book compiled by different experts to include psychiatrist, psychologists, and nurses. The DSM was created to provide a helpful guide to clinical practices and to serve as an educational tool for teaching psychopathology. The DSM classifies mental disorders in five areas called Axis’s. The areas of the DSM that will be discussed in more detail are anxiety, mood disorders, and dissociative or somatoform disorders. It will be interesting to compare the biological, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral components of each disorder. Anxiety Anxiety is usually defined as an unpleasant emotion with a sense of danger or believing that something bad will happen. Generalized anxiety disorder or GAD is commonly diagnosed. Females are diagnosed two times more frequently than men with GAD. The development of GAD can occur as a child. A child can worry about fitting in at school, sporting events, the strive for approval, and perfection. Adolescents with GAD could feel the stress associated with punctuality, school performance, and catastrophic events (Staff, nd). Panic disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and phobias are included in this section of the DSM. In a panic attack, the victim is overwhelmed with a sense of the need to escape. A phobia is explained as an exaggerated...
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...Texas A&M University Kingsville | Anxiety Disorders: Recognizing the symptoms of six of the most common Anxiety Disorders | | | TAMUK | 10/13/2014 | Summarization and reaction for recognizing the symptoms of anxiety disorders. | Cancro, R. (2007). Anxiety Disorders: Recognizing the symptoms of six of the most common Anxiety Disorders. EP Magazaine, January 2007, 27-30. Summary: There are about 20 million American adults that suffer from anxiety that is chronic, painful, and which becomes worse. The stresses of the world we live in, such as environmental issues, economic situations, personal home issues, competiveness, and our culture can contribute to a person suffering from anxiety. An anxiety disorder interferes with a person’s natural and beneficial adaptive responses, and this interference can happen in varying degrees from mild to incapacitating. There are six common types of anxiety disorders that were described in this article which include: 1. Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD): Affects about 4 million American adults. GAD is generally more common in women than in men. GAD continues throughout the day and can lead into the night which leads to sleeping difficulty. 2. Panic Disorder: is an intense fear with a sudden onset that can last about 10 minutes. People begin to feel rapid heart rate, sweating, and the feeling that they are having a heart attack. 3. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): OCD affects about three million...
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...Section KL CCNY 2016 Every year the world has seen an increase in the number of couples faced with infertility, while there is a decrease in the age these of married couple. In many cases, infertility is supported by psycho-emotional disorders. The repetitive thoughts about trying to get pregnant can make psycho-emotional health of couple suffer. Some couples continue to fight for being parent, some of them give up, but all feel equally bad. Thus, there is a circle mechanism: on the one hand, the fact of infertility contributes to a negative emotional state, on the other hand, a destructive psycho-emotional state leads to physical problems and infertility. The ability not to have baby in the family is one of the most serious chronic stressful situations for spouses. Depression and infertility are companions. The impact of psychological state due to infertility treatment result is recognized by almost all researchers. Depression due to infertility are not only harmful to psycho-emotional state of couple, but also is very dangerous to physical ability to have children. P. P. Verbovyi, Comparative Evaluation of Psycho-emotion State of Married Couple. In this article the author dives comparative description of the depression in women and men due to infertility. The clinical and psychopathological observation and examination of 90 couple who suffers infertility problems show that the most severe syndromes of depression is in couple who suffers infertility problem from 1 to...
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...How can a small mental illness such as stress, depression, and anxiety affect your unborn child? Stress depression and anxiety during pregnancy can greatly affect how the child develops cognitively and can increase their chances of mental illnesses later on in life. The average women in 2015 reported a stress level of 5.3 out of 10.(apa 2015)18.1% of adults 18 and older in the United States are suffering from anxiety. 8.2% of adults in the US are suffering from either major depressive disorder or persistent depressive disorder.(adaa facts and stats) If a mother is in the top 15% in the population for depression and anxiety symptoms, the risk of the child having behavioral and emotional problems doubles.(Glover 2015). It is becoming apparent that research is showing patterns between the infant in the womb/after birth and stress, anxiety, and depression....
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...Is it Anxiety or ADHD? Are you feeling anxious or sad? Were you diagnosed with anxiety disorder or depression? Many people are seeking help for symptoms such as, sadness, restlessness, mood changes, low energy, insomnia, trouble waking, emotional, forgetful, and even job or relationship problems. The above symptoms can be caused by many psychiatric disorders. Many physicians are diagnosing these people with depression or anxiety and throwing them anti-depressants and sending them on their way. What if the medication does not work? I want to make sure nobody goes years and years like I did trying every anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medication out there with no relief. They may very well have those disorders, but is there an underlying cause? What if the root cause is ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)? My essay is on ADHD and how it is being overlooked and going undiagnosed/misdiagnosed in most adults. I am also exploring the questions, is it Anxiety or ADHD? What came first? The ADHD or the Anxiety? Did the ADHD cause the other disorders? What can be done to inform people about ADHD and that it is not just a childhood disorder? The sources I chose to do my research were from ADHD websites that do lots of research on the subject and also from a very informative booklet from an ADHD class my psychologist took. There was so much great information from these sources that it was very difficult for me to choose what to include in this essay. I gathered lots of facts...
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...accepted. There are certain disorders that are more common among certain parts of the population. Social factors like gender, race, and culture influence mental health. Social conditions such as poverty, discrimination, and environmental stressors must also be looked at when evaluating abnormal behavior. Anxiety disorder is a disorder marked by excessive apprehension that seriously interferes with a person’s ability to function. Anxiety disorders can be characterized by four components: physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral. A physical component of anxiety is dizziness. A cognitive component would be the fear of losing control. An emotional component would be a sense of terror or panic. Coping with abnormal anxiety may include behaviors such as escaping a situation. We all experience anxiety from time to time. People with anxiety disorders have concerns that are unrealistic and out of proportion to the amount of harm that could occur. Approximately 19% of Americans over 18 years of age are diagnosed with an anxiety disorder in a given year. Women have consistently higher rates of anxiety disorders than men do. African Americans have a lower lifetime risk of anxiety disorders than European Americans and Hispanic Americans. Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by intense fear and anxiety in the absence of danger that is accompanied by strong symptoms. It is estimated that between 1.5% and 5% of people will develop panic disorder at some time in their lives...
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...Carolina Garcia Aguilar Psychological Disorders Panic disorder is a psychological disorder. The main features are recurrent events of panic abrupt, events of extreme fear, bordering on terror. The person not only experiences the recurrent events, but also a pounding heart, shortness of breath, faintness, and shaking. All these happen unexpectedly and are sometimes unexplainable. These recurrent events can play in the person’s head for up to 10-20 minutes. There is a relatively history of this psychological disorder, different causes and effects, those who are more likely to suffer from panic, and there are also treatments found for panic disorder. Psychological disorders have had different names throughout time, like mentioned in the book Understanding Panic and Other Anxiety Disorders, the author mentions, “During the American Civil War, Dr. Jacob Mendes DaCosta described finding in soldiers what he believed to be a cardiovascular disorder involving chest pains and palpitations of the heart, but, as it turned out, actual heart disease was not usually present” (Root 1). This syndrome became known as neurocirculatory asthenia, also known as effort syndrome, cardiac neurosis, soldier’s heart, and DaCosta’s syndrome. It was linked with the emotional and physical distress of war. During the twentieth century’s two world wars, sufferers of panic disorder slowly but surely came to be treated less often by those in the field of internal medicine and more often by psychiatrists. Observers...
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...Panic disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a patient experiences recurrent, unexpected panic attacks accompanied by concern about future attacks and/or a lifestyle change to avoid future attacks (Barlow 136.) The diagnostic criteria for panic disorder, according to the DSM-5, states that the patient must have: 1. Recurrent unexpected panic attacks 2. at least one of the attacks has been followed by one month or more of one or both of the following: (a.) persistent concern or worry about additional panic attacks or their consequences, or (b.) a significant maladaptive change in behavior related to the attacks, 3. the disturbance is not attributed to the physiological effects of a substance or another medical condition, and 4. the disturbance...
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...Social Anxiety Social anxiety disorder, commonly referred to as social phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by overwhelming anxiety and excessive self-consciousness in everyday social situations. Affects eight percent of general population and 3.7% of U.S. citizens. That’s 5.3 million people in one country being affected by social phobia. Twice as many women as men are affected, but men often seek help more than women do. Ironically both men and women are equally apt to developing this disorder. (“Social Phobia (Social Anxiety Disorder), 2015) Social phobia usually develops in childhood or early adolescence. Typically it will not develop in anyone over the age of twenty five. (Leary and Kowalski, 4) Research has led to the discovery...
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...Summarize the effects of one type of sexual dysfunction that can affect both men and women. What are some factors that may cause this type of dysfunction? What treatments may help people who experience this type of dysfunction? There are four known types of sexual dysfunctions; sexual desire disorder, sexual arousal disorder, orgasmic disorder, and sexual pain disorder. All of these sexual disorders are in some way connected on psychological levels which cause these dysfunctions. The orgasmic disorder is split into two categories. The first category is the female orgasmic disorder. This disorder causes women a challenge to achieve orgasm if they can achieve it, but this does not always count for masturbation. Women with this disorder usually do not receive enough clitoral stimulation during sexual intercourse to be able to achieve orgasm. Performance anxiety or sexual guilt may provoke an outburst. Also, trying too hard causes the opposite. Another main problem women encounter is not participating to the fullest. They rather watch than engage when it comes to active sexual intercourse. Women can also experience premature ejaculation, but most of the times this is not even recognized or classified as orgasmic disorder. The second category is the male orgasmic disorder which differs slightly from the female orgasmic disorder. While males generally reach orgasm, it either happens too early or it takes long time. This may not include masturbation or oral...
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...worry surpass “normality”? Generalized anxiety disorder is defined as persistent, unrealistic distress that occurs more days than not, for at least six months (Nutter, Jr, MD, 2014). Children, and more commonly, adolescents, around the world suffer from untreated generalized anxiety disorder. The reason for this is that some of the symptoms of this disorder can be easily confused with “normal” actions that a child or adolescent may part take in daily. A child or adolescent may develop anxiety from pressure to do well in school, or meet parental and societal expectations; the disorder is developed around the desire for perfectionism. According to Child Mind Institute (2017), some of the common symptoms...
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...Social Anxiety DisorderPhobia Disorders • Social Anxiety Disorder Social anxiety disorder, involves overwhelming anxiety and excessive self-consciousness in everyday social situations. People with social anxiety disorder have a persistent, intense, and chronic fear of being watched and judged by others and being embarrassed or humiliated by their own actions. Their fear may be so severe that it interferes with work or school, and other ordinary activities. While many people with social anxiety disorder recognize that their fear of being around people may be excessive or unreasonable. • Post traumatic...
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...Anxiety Disorders – an Outline Fears & Phobias • Adaptive responses • Excessive in nature Fear: excessive fears Phobia: subset of fears including avoidance fear, anxious anticipation, interferes significantly with daily routine, markedly distressed. Social Phobia: 2 types: generalized versus nongeneralized. Five subtypes: animal type; natural environment type; blood-injection type; situation type; “other” type. Common fears: ontogenetic parade. These include: fear of separation; fear of unfamiliar adults; fear of animals, darkness, & imaginary creatures. Adult fears: social fears; fears related to blood, illness, injury, or death; fear of animals; fears of environmental hazards. Genetics: Mean heritability 40%. Environment or combination of both appears important. Theories of Fear: 1. Two-factor Theory (Mowrer) & Pavlov, Watson & Rayner. Includes classical & operant conditioning. 2. Rachman (1976) which includes direct conditioning, modeling, & information/instructional transmission. Prepared Fears (Seligman, 1970): 1. rapidly acquired 2. resistant to extinction 3. “noncognitive” 4. differentially associated with stimuli of evolutionary significance. Research on preparedness theory: Cook & Mineka (1987, 1990); McNally (1987); Bandura Behavioral & Cognitive Theories: 1. Neo-conditioning; 2. Neo-conditioning & emotional processing. Anxiety Sensitivity: Reiss – AS is one of 3 fundamental fears. The others include illness/injury...
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...Disorder Paper - Anxiety Jonathan Dimitroff University of Phoenix Psych 575 March 23, 2015 Leah Mancuso PhD Disorder Paper - Anxiety The purpose of this paper is to discuss a neurological, psychological, or neurodevelopmental disorder. It is to compare and contrast three therapeutic interventions used to treat the chosen disorder; comparing measures of effectiveness, such as validity, efficacy, symptom and behavior management, and recidivism. One therapy should be cognitive in nature, one pharmacological in nature, and the third should be an alternative therapeutic treatment. This paper will identify common symptoms associated with the disorder, and rates of symptom reduction or management as reported with the three treatments. It will discuss what approach this author would use to treat this disorder based on the research used to develop this paper; and why. It will also analyze the neurophysiological underpinnings of disorders and diseases, as well as examine contemporary attitudes towards the three treatments selected. For the purposes of this paper, anxiety will be the chosen disorder. It is a psychological disorder with a variety of symptoms and specific types of anxiety. To list a few of the different types of anxiety, there is Panic disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Social Anxiety disorder, then there are the phobias which fall under the anxiety label, as well as Generalized...
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