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Axiety disorders
- Characterized by a pattern of frequent, constant worry and anxiety over daily activties such as:
- School, work, recreational activites, family activities
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Symptoms of Axiety disorders
- difficulty concentrating
- excessive anxiery or worry that is out fo proportion to the situation most of the time
- excessive searting, palpitations, shortness of breath , and stomach/intesstional symptoms
- fatigue
- irritability
- muscle tenstion,
- restlessness
- sleep distrubacnes
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Causes of Axiety disorders
- genetic predispostions
- head injury
- hyperthryoidism
- cardiovascular diseases
- respiratory diseases
- altered neurotranmitter levels
- prescription drugs illicit drugs
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Types of anxietry disorders
- panic disorder
- generalized anxiety disorder
- phobic disorders
- social phobias
- obsessive compulsive disorders
- post tramatic stress disorder
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Treatment for Axiety disorders
- Cognitive Behavorial therapy
- anxiolytics
- --benzodiazepines - enhances GABA receptor activation causing - therapeutic effect (anxiolytic) ; side effects (sedation, muscle relaxations, anticonvulsants, congnitive-impairment
- Antidepressants (SSRIs, SNRIs
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Anorexia nervosa
- anorexia mean lack of appetite
- characteristic features of sufferers
- -hungery but preoccupied with dieting, limiting food intake to the point of starvation, intensely fearful of gaining weight or becoming fat, anorectic to the point of becoing dangerously thin
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Bulimia nervosa
- excessive concern wit body weight and physical shape
- Characteritics include:
- -binge eating
- -rigorous dieting and exercise to prevent wieght gain
- -feelings of loss of control during binge periods followed by intense distress and guilt
- -Purging - self-induce vomiting, misuse of laxativies or diuretics
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