Pretend this‚ is a prescribed anti-anxiety pill‚ a pill that makes you feel better. Wrong. This is a way in which society “fixes” you in another repaired citizen. Instead of changing the owner of this pill’s environment‚ to help him/her feel assured‚ they give a magical little thing that is clinically designed to alter your brain‚ and it’s functions. Social Anxiety Disorders (SAD)‚ have to be helped without the use of medication. These drugs tug and pull at your brain and body’s ability to comprehend
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Draft Ever wonder what it is like to live in constant fear and worry? Anxiety is the constant fear or worry about the known or unknown leading to a non productive lifestyle. Anxiety is like watching a terrifying movie knowing that an event is about to take place or something is going to come out of nowhere but it never does‚ so a person is left constantly waiting with a pit in their stomach. It is important for a person to know the causes of anxiety or an anxiety disorder to help avoid putting
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An Outline of Performance Anxiety in Female Athletes Gena Petrick 102160287 University of the Fraser Valley Roger Friesen February 21‚ 2012 Introduction Have you ever felt an overwhelming feeling of fear or nervousness‚ prior to competing in an important event? Did it affect your ability to perform? If so‚ you may be familiar with performance anxiety. An athlete suffering from performance anxiety often will perceive competitive situations as threatening‚ which can result
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Public Speaking Anxiety and Its Effect on Students Introduction Public speaking anxiety is a problem for many people. Some say that it is the number one fear of Americans over death. There have been many studies done in the general field of public speaking anxiety. I am going to review five articles that touch on various issues surrounding public speaking anxiety. All five of these articles are from Communication journals and are at most five years old. Literature Review There
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levels of anxiety or depression. The currently used cut-off score of eight gives a specificity of 0.78 and a sensitivity of 0.90 for anxiety sub-scale‚ and a specificity of 0.79 and a sensitivity 0.83 for depression sub-scale (Bjelland et al.‚ 2002). In the present study‚ Cronbach’s alpha was 0.86 for depression and 0.84 for anxiety. The Health Anxiety Inventory (HAI) is 18-item questionnaire measuring clinical and non-clinical health anxiety. Each item is scored from 0 to 3. The first fourteen
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Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) Patients are asked to choose one response from the four given for each interview. They should give an immediate response and be dissuaded from thinking too long about their answers. The questions relating to anxiety are marked "A"‚ and to depression "D". The score for each answer is given in the right column. Instruct the patient to answer how it currently describes their feelings. A I feel tense or ’wound up’: Most of the time A lot of the time From
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Case Study: Anxiety Answer Sheet Diagnosing Tina Student Name: Rachel Sopok Diagnosing Generalized Anxiety Disorder: 1a. Refer to the DSM-IV checklist for generalized anxiety disorder. Which of Tina’s symptoms meet any of the criteria? (Be sure to match specific symptoms with specific criteria.) Tina expressed that she has dealt with constant negative thoughts and worry for one year (since the loss of her husband). Tina is extremely nervous about driving‚ bridges and of something traumatic happening
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CC Follow up anxiety. Skin tags. S The patient is a 54-year-old female who continues on Paxil CR currently at 37.5 mg p.o. daily. She started this medication in June of 2013. Unfortunately‚ since being on this medication. She has gained significant weight and continues to gain weight. She states she really is not eating any differently‚ is exercising‚ if anything‚ more. She does tell me as well‚ however‚ that she knows that part of this is being perimenopausal. She also tells me that the
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can be looked into would be how social anxiety affects a student’s daily routine. We may not notice too much‚ but as students‚ we get set in different routines for each day. This research proposal will be aimed at college students who believes they have social anxiety or have been diagnosed with social anxiety. This study was chosen to see whether there is a change in a student’s daily routine if they have to give a presentation on that given day. Social anxiety disorder (SAD) can affect many different
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lasted about 4 years due to personality conflicts between her and her husband. Stacey enrolled in college classes for nursing but found the thought of making classroom presentations too stressful and paralyzing‚ she withdrew from the courses. She thought she would be made fun of and harshly judged by her teacher and classmates. Stacey has been gainfully employed as a cashier for a local grocery store for 7 years. Her employer is
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