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Typical Axis I Disorders Source: Wade and Tavris

Typical Axis I Disorders Source: Wade and Tavris. Spinrad /Psychology. Anxiety Disorders. Generalized anxiety disorder: continuous, uncontrollable anxiety, feeling of foreboding and dread Posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD): reliving the trauma

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Typical Axis I Disorders Source: Wade and Tavris

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  1. Typical Axis I DisordersSource: Wade and Tavris Spinrad/Psychology

  2. Anxiety Disorders • Generalized anxiety disorder: continuous, uncontrollable anxiety, feeling of foreboding and dread • Posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD): reliving the trauma • Panic disorder: recurring attacks of intense fear or panic with feeling s of impending doom or death

  3. Celebrities with anxiety disorders

  4. Anxiety disorders (cont) • Phobias: an exaggerated fear of a specific situation, activity, or thing • Agoraphobia: being away from a safe place, usually home • Arachnophobia: fear of spiders • Claustrophobia: fear of being in enclosed spaces

  5. Anxiety disorders (cont) • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): recurrent, persistent, unwished-for thoughts or images (obsessions) and repetitive, ritualized, stereotyped behaviors that the person feels compelled to carry out (compulsions) • May involve an organic (biological) cause involving the brain’s “alarm” system

  6. Megan Fox

  7. Mood Disorders • Range from extreme depression to extreme mania

  8. Mood Disorders (cont) • Major Depression • Widespread • Involves emotional, behavioral, cognitive, and physical changes that disrupt ordinary functioning for six months or longer • Despairing, hopeless • Suicidal ideation • Unable to do normal things • Exaggerate failings • Sleep, eating, and concentration problems

  9. Mood Disorders (cont) • Mania: an abnormally high state of exhilaration • Opposite symptoms from depression • Occasionally psychotic symptoms Bipolar disorder: alternating between periods of depression and periods of mania

  10. Drug Abuse and Addiction • Biological versus Learning Models • Alcohol most prevalent • Other types include gambling

  11. Schizophrenia • Active/positive symptoms involve a distortion of thinking and behavior • Bizarre delusions • Hallucinations • Disorganized, incoherent speech • Grossly inappropriate and disorganized behavior

  12. Schizophrenia (cont) • Negative symptoms involve the loss of normal traits or abilities such as the ability to speak fluently and feel warm emotions • Loss of motivation • Emotional flatness • Impoverished speech • Social withdrawal

  13. Celebrities with schizophrenia

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