Characteristics of OCD, drepression and phobias
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- Created on: 09-11-15 17:23
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- Phobias, depression and OCD
- Phobias
- Symptoms
- Behavioural
- Avoidant/ anxiety response
- Effort is made to avoid feared objects /situations
- Stop the response occurring
- Effort is made to avoid feared objects /situations
- Disruption of functioning
- Responses can stop everyday working due to distraction
- Avoidant/ anxiety response
- Emotional
- Persistent, excessive fear
- High levels of anxiety due to presence of feared objects or situations
- Fear from exposure to phobic stimulus
- Phobias introduce immediate fear response due to presence of phobic object or situation
- Persistent, excessive fear
- Cognitive
- Recognition of exaggerated anxiety
- Phobics consciously aware of overly high anxiety levels
- Recognition of exaggerated anxiety
- Behavioural
- Types
- Simple phobias
- Specific to a thing or environment
- Examples
- Animal eg. arachnophobia (spiders)
- Injury eg. haematophobi-a (fear of blood)
- Situational eg. aerophobia (fear of flying)
- Social phobias
- Being over anxious in social situations
- Examples
- Performance
- Interaction(meeting with others)
- Agorophobia
- Fear of leaving safe place such as home
- Could be due to fear of social embarrassment
- Often occurs with panic attacks
- Simple phobias
- Phobias are a type of anxiety disorder
- Irrational , uncontrollableextreme fears which are out of proportion to risk
- 10% of people suffer at one point in life, with twice as many females
- Most phobias originate in childhood
- Symptoms
- Depression
- Unipolar depression
- no manic periods
- 25%women and 12% men suffer
- Don't respond solely to antidepressants
- Symptoms
- Behavioural
- Loss of energy
- Reduced social interactions
- Weight dramatically changes
- Insomnia or oversleeping
- Poor personal hygiene
- Emotional
- Loss of enthusiasm
- Constant depressed mood (ever present feeling of hopelessness)
- Feelings of worthlessness
- Cognitive
- Delusions and sometimes hallucinations
- Poor memory
- Thoughts of death and suicide
- Lack of concentration
- Behavioural
- Bipolar depression
- 2% of people suffer from bipolar disorder
- Also called manic depression
- Alternating manic episodes
- Symptoms
- Emotional
- Elevated mood states (constant high mood)
- Irritability (frustrated if they don get their own way)
- Lack of guilt (social inhibition and no guilt)
- Cognitive
- Delusions (delusional and grandiose)
- Irrational thought processes (irrational thinking and therefore actions)
- Behavioural
- Reckless behaviour (risk taking and dangerous)
- HIgh energy levels (increased output and social interactions)
- Talkative (fast endless speech)
- Emotional
- An affective mood disorder, lengthy disturbance of emotions
- More common in women than men
- 20% of people will suffer from depression
- Many adolescences have it due to body dissatisfaction
- Can run in cycles
- Leads to suicidal thoughts (60%) suicides due to mood disorders
- Unipolar depression
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Type of anxiety disorder
- Sufferers experience obsessions or compulsions
- Obsessions are ideas and images leading to anxiety
- Compulsions are behaviour as a result of obeseeion
- Most sufferers recognise problem but cant correct it
- occurs in 2% of population
- Sufferers experience obsessions or compulsions
- Obsession
- Symptoms
- Behavioural
- Ability to perform everyday activities is hindered
- Social impairment
- Emotional
- Extreme anxiety
- Cognitive
- Repeated obsessive thoughts
- Recognise thoughts and realise inappropriate
- Behavioural
- Common obsessions
- Contamination
- Perfectionism
- Symptoms
- Compulsions
- Common compulsions
- Excessive cleaning
- Hoarding
- Symptoms
- Behavioural
- Repetitive behaviours
- Hinders everyday functioning and social
- Cognitive
- Uncontrollable urges
- Realisation of inappropriateness
- Emotional
- Distress
- Behavioural
- Common compulsions
- Type of anxiety disorder
- Phobias
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