Anxiety

A psychological disorder is when abnormal behavior persists over time and becomes a deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional pattern of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. One of the psychological disorders is anxiety. There are many different types of anxieties that we learned in class, many of which I did not know qualified as anxieties. Anxiety is when the sympathetic nervous system is aroused when there is nothing that should arouse it. Sometimes anxiety could be good, because it triggers your fight-or-flight response. When your sympathetic nervous system is continuously aroused and your body is in constant activation, then it becomes detrimental, like when it occurs in the absence of normal stimulation.

General Anxiety Disorder: The person is always worried and they feel physiological symptoms over everything. They make huge situations when there is nothing there.

Phobias:
    Full Fledged Panic - when a fear begins to take over your life, thoughts, dreams, etc. then it is considered a phobia.
   Agoraphobia - the fear of going outside, the person stays shuttered in their home, this could             happen because of any reason.
  Social Phobia - Feel anxious to be in social situations. It is considered a phobia when it is                    actually impeding you functioning.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder:
Have obsessive thoughts, which then develops anxiety. You then develop compulsive actions to          relieve anxiety. You are so worried that something is not right that you constantly check it even if        you know it's right. You do these actions to cope with your anxiety.

PTSD:
Anyone who had major trauma. Can't function in life because of it. Flashbacks f the trauma. Most         found in veterans.

Panic Disorder:
Anxiety on steroids. A person will feel like they're going to die. Sometimes caused by something       specific and sometimes not. Sometimes someone will have a fear of having a panic attack, so they will have the panic attack.