#### [[notes_Diagnosing Anxiety ]] **Creator**:: [[Dr. K]] **Source**:: [[course_Dr. K's Guide to Mental Health]] **Link**:: [what-is-an-anxiety-disorder](https://coaching.healthygamer.gg/guide/lessons/what-is-an-anxiety-disorder), [generalized-anxiety-disorder](https://coaching.healthygamer.gg/guide/lessons/generalized-anxiety-disorder), [social-anxiety-disorder](https://coaching.healthygamer.gg/guide/lessons/social-anxiety-disorder), [panic-disorder](https://coaching.healthygamer.gg/guide/lessons/panic-disorder), [rebound-anxiety](https://coaching.healthygamer.gg/guide/lessons/rebound-anxiety), [other-anxiety-disorders](https://coaching.healthygamer.gg/guide/lessons/other-anxiety-disorders) ## Notes - [[Anxiety]] [[Disorder]] is when anxiety impairs our function - Avoidance behaviors - physiological effects - mental effects - Is anxiety developed or inherent? - What is the manifestion of anxiety? - [[Panic Disorder]] is shorterm anxiety - [[social anxiety]] is longterm anxiety - [[GAD|Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)]] - effects 3% of the adult population - 9% will develop it at some point but it will go into remission - [[GAD]] characterized by general tendency to worry - intensity, duration, and frequency is out of whack with reality - symptoms last six months - anxiety about multiple different parts of life - anxiety does have a clear reason - physiological symptons like tension, headaches, [[insomnia]], nausea - [[Gastrointestinal system]] system and skin - not [[Adrenaline]] and increased [[heart rate]] are more with [[panic attacks]] - [[SAD|Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD)]] - 7% of population - diagnoses later in life when there is a big shift - morphs over time - older becomes less intense becomes more common - only 12% of shy people meet requirements - requirements - Do you crave to be invisible - [[Confidence is a feedback loop]] - [[feedback loop]] of anxiety leading to nervousness which leads up to mess ups which leads to [[scrutiny]] which leads to more anxiety - 6 months or more - shape life around anxiety - [[Increases in scrutiny lead to increases in anxiety]] - [[Social media]] is making [[social anxiety]] more prevalent - increasing [[scrutiny]] and [[Confidence is a feedback loop]] - Differences between [[GAD]] - gad is about all things and SAD is focused on [[scrutiny]] - [[Panic Disorder]] - Do you randomly feel a sense of [[impending doom]] - [[panic attacks]] can come up in minutes and last hours - Difference between colloquial [[panic attacks]] and [[Panic Disorder]] panic attacks - symptoms - [[Palpitations]] Sensation of irregular beating of the [[heart]]. - sweating - trembling - shortness of breath - dizzy - cold or hot - numbness or tingling - [[derealization]] - [[Depersonalization]] - fear of losing control - manifests in [[Agoraphobia]] - increased [[heart rate]] - [[Tachycardia]] Increased [[heart rate]] over 100 beats per minute - [[panic attacks]] can very in frequency - [[Rebound Anxiety]] - [[anxiety]] is symptom not a diagnosis - [[Rebound Anxiety]] is symptom - seen after substance abuse to deal with [[anxiety]] - How substances affects your [[brain]] - [[Anxiolytic]] - [[Sympathetic Nervous System]] is active during [[anxiety]] - cause realize of [[Cortisol]] and [[Adrenaline]] - substance pulls the plug on the [[Sympathetic Nervous System]] - when substance wears off the anxiety comes roaring back - substances are very effective which is why our brain loves them [[Our brain will do anything it can to protect itself]] - Our brains adapts to substances by either increasing receptors if substances are stopping things from being released or decreasing receptors if it is increasings things being released - Substances - [[Benzodiazepines]] - [[Caffeine]] - Separation Anxiety Disorder - more common in children - thinking a lot or hurt when you are seperated about person - focused on future consequences of being seperated from that person - [[Anxiety prevents us from living in the present]] - Phobias - [[fear]] of a particular thing - fear is out of proportion of particular thing - 10% of population - [[Exposure Therapy]] is clinical proven treatment - gradually exposing more and more as the patient is comfortable - retraining emotional reactions [[Triggers activate stored emotional responses for certain situations]] - [[OCD]] - distinct neurochemical process from [[anxiety]] - OCD and anxiety are both thought generators - [[mind]] focuses you onto one thing and it can be painful to avoid it