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Definitions for key terms related to anxiety disorders, including fear, anxiety, panic disorder, unexpected panic attacks, situational bound panic attacks, situational predisposed panic attacks, and agoraphobia. Anxiety disorders are characterized by excessive worrying and fear about future uncertainties, which can impact both physical and psychological health.
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DEFINITION 1 Fear is an emotion induced by a perceived threat that causes animals to move quickly away from the location of the perceived threat, and sometimes hide. TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 Anxiety is a psychological and physiological state characterized by somatic, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral components. TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 is a blanket term covering several different forms of a type of common psychiatric disorder characterized by excessive rumination, worrying, uneasiness, apprehension and fear about future uncertainties either based on real or imagined events, which may affect both physical and psychological health. TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 People with this experience panic attacks. Periods of fear and physical discomfort. Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by recurring severe panic attacks. It may also include significant behavioral changes lasting at least a month and of ongoing worry about the implications or concern about having other attacks. TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 Some of the persons panic attacks must come out of the blue, something didnt trigger the attack it just happens.
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DEFINITION 6 Experience of a panic attack in anticipation of confronting a particular situation or immediately following exposure to a specific stimulus or cue in the environment TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 Person has tendency to have a panic attack in a situation but not always TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 which is intense anxiety about being trapped, stranded, or embarrassed without help if a panic attack were to occur.Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety in situations where the sufferer perceives the environment as being difficult to escape or get help.