Anxiety Examined: working with treatment resistant anxiety disorders in primary care
Contents Anxiety: defined. 1 Types of source for Anxiety. 3 Triggers to Anxiety. 4 Dysfunctional and functional Anxiety. 4 Dysfunctional anxiety understood longitudinally. 5 Anxiety from a development perspective. 6 Values. 6 Anxiety symptoms. 7 Anxiety coping responses. 8 Implications for treating anxiety in primary care. 8 Implications for OCD.. 8 Implications for Social Anxiety. 9 Implications for Generalised anxiety disorder. 10 Implications for Panic Disorder. 11 Implications for Health Anxiety. 12 Implications for PTSD.. 13 Implications for Phobias. 13 Definitions: 14 Emotions. 14 Anxiety: defined Let us start by defining our terms and propose a continuum of a threat response, which anxiety exists on. We can define different items on the continuum by a prototypical situation that would evoke certain feelings. The labels we use are going to be slightly blurry and really all we are saying is we have different levels and types of threat. If we start from mild threat we might talk ab...