Complexity of Anxiety Disorders
ANXIETY, FEAR, AND PANIC: SOME DEFINITIONS ➢
Anxiety
Unexpected (Uncued) Panic Attacks
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➢ CAUSES OF ANXIETY AND RELATED DISORDERS
Biological Dimension
→ Shadow of Intelligence
➢ →
➢
➢ →
→
➢
Fear
→ Corticotropin-Releasing Factor (CRF) System
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→ Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS)
→ FUTURE-ORIENTED MOOD STATE
→
→ IMMEDIATE EMOTIONAL REACTION TO
CURRENT DANGER
→
→ Fight/Flight System (FFS)
Panic Attack
Panic
→
➢ two types of
panic attacks are Psychological Dimension
Expected (Cued) Panic Attacks
, ➢ sense of uncontrollability Social Contributions.
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➢ Upbringing
AN INTEGRATED MODEL
Triple Vulnerability Theory
Types of Upbringings Results
Parents who interact in a positive
and predictable way with their
Children learn that they have
children by responding to their Generalized Biological Vulnerability
needs. control over their
environment and their
Parents who provide a “secure home responses have an effect on
base” but allow their children to their parents and their
explore their world and develop the environment.
necessary skills to cope with →
unexpected occurrences.
They create a situation in
Parents who are overprotective and
which children never learn how Generalized Psychological Vulnerability
overintrusive and who “clear the
to cope with adversity when it
way” for their children, never
comes along. These children
letting them experience any
don’t learn that they can
adversity.
control their environment.
➢ Anxiety Sensitivity →
➢ Specific Psychological Vulnerability
→
→ →
→
➢ →
→ External Cues ➢
→ Internal Cues
COMORBIDITY OF ANXIETY AND RELATED DISORDERS
➢
ANXIETY, FEAR, AND PANIC: SOME DEFINITIONS ➢
Anxiety
Unexpected (Uncued) Panic Attacks
➢
➢
➢ CAUSES OF ANXIETY AND RELATED DISORDERS
Biological Dimension
→ Shadow of Intelligence
➢ →
➢
➢ →
→
➢
Fear
→ Corticotropin-Releasing Factor (CRF) System
➢
→ Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS)
→ FUTURE-ORIENTED MOOD STATE
→
→ IMMEDIATE EMOTIONAL REACTION TO
CURRENT DANGER
→
→ Fight/Flight System (FFS)
Panic Attack
Panic
→
➢ two types of
panic attacks are Psychological Dimension
Expected (Cued) Panic Attacks
, ➢ sense of uncontrollability Social Contributions.
➢
➢
➢
➢ Upbringing
AN INTEGRATED MODEL
Triple Vulnerability Theory
Types of Upbringings Results
Parents who interact in a positive
and predictable way with their
Children learn that they have
children by responding to their Generalized Biological Vulnerability
needs. control over their
environment and their
Parents who provide a “secure home responses have an effect on
base” but allow their children to their parents and their
explore their world and develop the environment.
necessary skills to cope with →
unexpected occurrences.
They create a situation in
Parents who are overprotective and
which children never learn how Generalized Psychological Vulnerability
overintrusive and who “clear the
to cope with adversity when it
way” for their children, never
comes along. These children
letting them experience any
don’t learn that they can
adversity.
control their environment.
➢ Anxiety Sensitivity →
➢ Specific Psychological Vulnerability
→
→ →
→
➢ →
→ External Cues ➢
→ Internal Cues
COMORBIDITY OF ANXIETY AND RELATED DISORDERS
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