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Guide to DSM-IV Diagnosis: Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety disorders are diagnosed when people always feel fear and experience the excitement Abnormal sympathetic nervous system (also known as the fight or flight "reaction) even though there is no real threat or danger to the person, and to the point that is interfering with daily life.
Let's look at each of the major anxiety disorders later, along with films portrayed, some more successful than others, the symptoms.
Specific phobia
By definition, a phobia is a fear of something specific. The fear that something has become so general that the person may react with fear in the name of the thing, the description, or even caricatures or cartoons of it.
Phobias are divided into five categories:
1. type of animal – snakes, spiders, dogs, rats, bats and other organisms are divided into this category.
2. Natural kind of environment – these are caused by things found in nature: storms, fire, heights, darkness, large water bodies, etc.
3. type of situation – these are caused by a particular situation, such as having to deal with bridges, elevators, flying, dentists, tunnels, etc.
4. Blood-injection-injury type – needles, injuries, and blood are the most common blood-injection-injury phobias, and this type is different from the others in that people with this type of phobia is much more likely to faint when faced with the feared stimulus
5. Otherwise – Fears that do not meet the other four categories, go here, for example, fear of choking, vomiting, or clowns (Well as I put them together, Huh?), I would go here.
** Movies that portray phobias: The Truman Show, Vertigo, Arachnophobia
** Note: Although Indiana Jones is the favorite example of all a person with a phobia-type animals, it is not really enough so scared of snakes that can be diagnosed with a phobia.
Remember Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indy has to go down into the well of souls to find the Ark? You may hate snakes but functions well around them. If there is a real phobia would not be able to think clearly, let alone help the Ark Sallah get out or find a way Marion exhaust after it is sealed.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is an ongoing problem with "free floating" anxiety, ie anxiety that is not attached to anything, how it could be "connected" dogs in a person with a phobia about dogs. People with generalized anxiety disorder often have a lot of small stressors, what psychologists called "complications", working together in their lives.
** Movies that portray the TAG: Annie Hall, Analyze This, Manhattan
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by obsessions (thoughts and feelings of fear that will not go away) relieved by compulsions (behaviors rituals to ward off the fear caused by the obsession).
Psychologists originally thought that OCD was existential or symbolic nature. It is believed, for example, that the fears of germs and compulsive washing because the person believes that somehow felt dirty, dirty or contaminated.
Although some OCD may in fact be symbolic or existential, in many people who seem to have a strong biological component. Drugs that increase the product brain chemical serotonin appear to significantly reduce OCD symptoms in many patients.
** Movies that portray the TOC: As Good As It Gets, Matchstick Men
Panic Disorder
Panic disorder is diagnosed in people who have repeated panic attacks. The best way to imagine what a panic attack is as if you've never had one is to imagine that the next time you open the door, if your pantry or the office has a rabid, hungry brown bear behind him.
His body would burst of adrenaline in his veins, causing the pupils to dilate, your heart pound, your breathing to accelerate and palms sweating. You may feel subjectively that the time had "diminished", leaving everything moves in slow motion. The bear can look cartoonish, or you may feel like you're seeing the panic itself from the outside. (Both of the last two sentences describe the forms of derealization and depersonalization called dissociation, respectively.)
Now, imagine the reaction that has not move from wherever you are reading this. You're reading along, no rabid grizzly sight, and that feeling hits you. Worse, since there is no obvious reason to be concerned that you're going crazy and that if he gives his instincts to run, mourn, curl into a ball, scream or fight, people think you're crazy.
Now that's a panic attack.
Disorder With Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia is a fear of being trapped in a public place would be embarrassing or difficult to escape. (People often erroneously are taught that means "fear of open spaces," but literally means "fear of the market" and the fear has to do with the potential shame on himself in public.)
Panic disorder is diagnosed with or without agoraphobia. Maybe you can see why, on the basis of fear bizarre behavior in public if there is a panic attack, apparently from nowhere, a place where people could see how the person feels desperate.
** Movies that portray panic attacks: Copycat, Benny and Joon (the character has schizophrenia, but she suffers a panic attack on a bus near the end of the movie)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is caused by an experience you felt horror and helplessness because their lives, safety or physical – or someone she loved – were in terrible and imminent danger (or who thought they were).
Rape and war are two of the most common causes of PTSD, something about knowing that another human being is doing sadistic something that looks like a "overload" the brain and permanently kick the "fight or flight" mode.
People with PTSD suffer ongoing fear in the form of feelings of danger or fear, panic attacks, nightmares, flashbacks, and a hyperactive startle reflex. You may be asked to sit Your skin crawls or similar which are "on the roof" with anxiety.
If you've ever seen a film of great fear, nervousness he feels later – in which every little sound that makes you think of a number murderer is about to fall out the window – is an example of very, very light of what someone with disorder experience post-traumatic stress almost constantly.
** Movies that portray PTSD: Fearless, Saving Private Ryan, No Escape, Born on the Fourth of July, The Deer Hunter
About the Author
Dr. Carolyn Kaufman is a clinical psychologist who teaches at Columbus State Community College in Columbus, Ohio. A published writer, she runs Archetype Writing: Psychology for Fiction Writers (http://www.archetypewriting.com). Visitors will find not only articles about psychology tailored to their needs, but they can ask Dr. K their writing/psychology questions. She is often quoted by the media as an expert resource.
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