Anxiety

Panic attacks can last up to 30 minutes

• True

• False

What differentiates different Anxiety Disorders?

• Timing, Duration, and proposed etiology

• The intensity of fear

• types of situations that are feared or avoided and the content of the associated thoughts or beliefs

• The presence of panic attacks

Fear and Anxiety according to the DSM:

• Fear is more intense than Anxiety

• Fear is future oriented

  Anxiety is immediate response

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  Fear and Anxiety are synonymous

• Anxiety is future oriented

  Fear is immediate response

Panic attacks paired with what will lead to a dxn of Panic Disorder

• 1. Persistent concern or worry about additional panic attacks or their consequences (e.g., losing control, having a heart attack, “going crazy”).

• 1. A significant maladaptive change in behavior related to the attacks (e.g., behaviors designed to avoid having panic attacks, such as avoidance of exercise or unfamiliar situations)

• Either or both significant changes in behavior in response to Panic attacks and Persistent concern about another panic attack

• Panic attacks are sufficient for Panic disorder

If someone reaches full criteria of GAD and has panic attacks they would be dxn as?

• GAD w/ Panic attacks

• GAD

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  Panic Disoder

• Agoraphobia

• Panic Disoder