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Anxiety disorders
NUR207 anxiety disorders
Term | Definition |
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder | worry about everything |
panic disorder | periods of severe anxiety lasting about ten minutes |
Agoraphobia | fear of a place or a situation |
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | an anxiety disorder characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions) |
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder | individual has experienced a traumatic event and is now re-experiencing it over and over |
Social Phobia | fear of being embarrassed, or put on the spot |
Somatization disorder | a long-term (chronic) condition in which a person has physical symptoms that involve more than one part of the body, but no physical cause can be found |
Conversion Disorder | can’t see, hear, speak, feel, move, and occasionally have seizures. No physiological cause |
Hypochondriasis | patient incorrectly believes they have a serious illness |
Body Dysmorphic Disorder | a body image disturbance |
Pain Disorder | presence of pain in one or more body parts, no physiological etiology |