1. Bellringer:
Describe the Approach-Approach Conflict situation that causes stress.

2. Anxiety Disorders

4. If you are walking down the street and a dog runs at your barking, it is normal to feel afraid. However, if you get anxious when a dog appears on TV, that is a disorder.
If a student gets nervous because they have to give a speech and their voice shakes and palms sweat that is normal. If that same student runs out of the room screaming or faints while giving the speech that is a disorder.

5. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Anxiety Disorders
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Feeling unexplainably tense & uneasy
Unavoidable because the cause can’t be identified
May develop into “Panic Attacks”
Phobic Disorders
Irrational fear of a specific object or situation
People often accept & live with phobias
Fear of snakes, high places, crowds, cats etc.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Repetitive Thoughts or Repetitive Behaviors
They interfere with the way we live or cause distress

6. Explaining Anxiety Disorders
Learning
Perspective
Anxiety is based on
predictability of
stimulus
Psychoanalytic
Perspective
Early childhood
fixation and/or
repression
Biological
Perspective
Anxiety as
evolutionarily
adaptive + twin
studies & PET
scans

7. Generalized Anxiety Disorders
A vague feeling of apprehension or feeling that one is in danger.
Fearing unknown circumstances, they are unable to make decisions or enjoy life.

8. What causes Anxiety Inherited Anxiety Environmental Factors
Past Experience
A man goes on a date and it goes very badly and he is very nervous the whole time.
The man now gets anxious at the thought of a date.
Then man now gets anxious when he talks to a woman
He then gets anxious when he sees the opposite sex
He then gets anxious when he sees people in general.
Inherited Anxiety
Environmental Factors
Major life changes

9. Symptoms The more they worry the more difficulties they have
The more difficulties they have, the more they worry
Muscle tension
Inability to relax
Insomnia
Constant worry
Diarrhea
Frequent urination

10. Panic Disorders
A feeling of sudden helplessness, terror, or overwhelming fright (lasts only a few minutes)
Can be inherited or developed through stress
Symptoms
Choking
Can’t breathe
Faintness
Dizziness
Nausea
Chest pains

12. Phobic Disorders Severe anxiety focused on a particular object
Social Phobia - Fear of public or social setting
Specific Phobia - Focus on any fear

13. Acarophobia: fear of itching or the insects that cause itching
Hydrophobia: fear of water
Logizomechanophobia: fear of computers
Acrophobia: fear of heights
Aerophobia: fear of flying
Lygophobia: fear of darkness
Agoraphobia: fear of open spaces
Nosocomephobia: fear of hospitals
Atelophobia: fear of imperfection
Verminophobia: fear of germs
Zoophobia: fear of animals
Autophobia: fear of being alone
Catagelophobia: fear of being ridiculed
Claustrophobia: fear of closed spaces
Entomophobia: fear of insects
Felinophobia: fear of cats
Heliophobia: fear of the sun
Hemophobia: fear of blood
Have students identify each examples type of phobia

15. Pickleaphobia??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-FGE7QELQ
Can this be an actual phobia?

16. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsession
Thinking about the same anxious thoughts over and over
Compulsion
Repeatedly perform irrational actions to ease the anxiety

17. Obsessive Compulsive
Ritual Cleansing (4:43)
OCD and Kids (2:31)

18. OCD Quiz

19. OCD Quiz – Discussion Questions 1
OCD Quiz – Discussion Questions 1. What would be an advantage of being high OCD and low OCD? 2. What would be a disadvantage of both? 3. What problems would a couple with scores at the two extremes have? 4. Name a career that would best suit the high and low OCD people. 5. Do you think this test was accurate for you?

20. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Disorder in which victims of traumatic events experience severe and long-lasting effects
Common among veterans of war, survivors of disasters, and victims of violence.

21. Common Symptoms of PTSD
Involuntary flashbacks
Nightmares
Night terrors
Night Sweats
Hysteria
Paranoia
Treatment for PTSD (3:35)

23. PTSD Article PTSD - Read article and answer in complete sentences:
What could cause both PTSD and mild brain injury? How?
What is the debate surrounding PTSD and brain injuries?
What are short and long term effects of mild brain injury?
What is the difference between a brain injury/concussion at home versus in the army?
What are some problems with the treatment of PTSD and brain injury?
What are some steps being taken to improve the treatment (and prevention) of PTSD and brain injury?

24. Exit Slip
1. Stress that increases sharpness and motivation is known as
A) Distress
B) Eustress
C) Depression
D) Stressor
2. An example of an active coping strategy would be…
A) Aggression
B) Defense Mechanisms
C) Exercise
D) Headaches