Fear and Anxiety Quiz

fear – reaction to a specific and present threat, anxiety—vague sense of dread, apprehension of an unspecified or unknown future danger or negative outcome, anxiety is important because it signals to us when there is a threat and how we should react to the threat, worry—typically uncontrollable thoughts/images focused on the potentially negative outcomes, fear allows you to react and anxiety is more abstract and vague, key features of anxiety responses all happen together and feed each other, levels of anxiety: normal level – is helpful and adaptive, mild level everyday anxiety unable to fully grasp and perceive reality, i.e. feeling anxious about an exam that helps us to focus and study, can learn and engage in problem solving, symptoms: discomfort, restlessness, irritability, foot tapping, fidgeting, moderate anxiety selective inattention to details, problem solving is hampered, lost ability to pay attention to surroundings and absorb details, i.e. having a conversation with someone and realizing you aren’t listening, hard to pull in details and focus on things outside of what we are feeling anxious about, symptoms— tension, inc pulse/resp rate, mild somatic symptoms – nausea and sweating, severe anxiety ++ narrowed awareness of env, cannot engage in learning or problem solving, behavior is much more automatic, engage in automatic soothing like pacing and hand ringing, symptoms—inc somatic symptoms, sense of impending doom, panic—depersonalization, completely unable to process env stimuli, terror/emotional paralysis, feeling of ceasing to exist, symptoms immobility, severe hyperactivity – fight or flight, when does anxiety become problematic, when cognitive physical and behavioral situations are excessive and persistent, causing significant distress, if social roles are being impeded—your anxiety is at the level of a disorder, negative.