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VCE Stuff => VCE Science => VCE Mathematics/Science/Technology => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Psychology => Topic started by: featheredbirds on October 19, 2012, 06:16:10 pm
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HEY GUYS! I'm just having a complete sense of blankness as to how I would answer this question, anyone that knows PLEASE HELP. ::)
In what way is anxiety experienced as a ‘normal’ part of everyday life different from the experience of anxiety that characterises an anxiety disorder?
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HEY GUYS! I'm just having a complete sense of blankness as to how I would answer this question, anyone that knows PLEASE HELP. ::)
In what way is anxiety experienced as a ‘normal’ part of everyday life different from the experience of anxiety that characterises an anxiety disorder?
Anxiety in everyday life is adaptive; a severe anxiety response can be useful in the short term to help to equip us to deal with threatening/dangerous situations. Physiologically, it is like the flight-fight response and therefore makes us more alert and our reactions faster. Mild-moderate levels also makes us more alert and improve our ability to cope.
By contrast, anxiety associated with an anxiety disorder is not adaptive and is usually counter-productive and disabling, causing extreme distress and dysfunction. It is often accompanied by intense physiological sensations and responses.
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Do you think this'll be something we need to know well for the exams? Which exam paper is this from. and is it a short answer question or extended response?
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HEY GUYS! I'm just having a complete sense of blankness as to how I would answer this question, anyone that knows PLEASE HELP. ::)
In what way is anxiety experienced as a ‘normal’ part of everyday life different from the experience of anxiety that characterises an anxiety disorder?
Anxiety in everyday life is adaptive; a severe anxiety response can be useful in the short term to help to equip us to deal with threatening/dangerous situations. Physiologically, it is like the flight-fight response and therefore makes us more alert and our reactions faster. Mild-moderate levels also makes us more alert and improve our ability to cope.
By contrast, anxiety associated with an anxiety disorder is not adaptive and is usually counter-productive and disabling, causing extreme distress and dysfunction. It is often accompanied by intense physiological sensations and responses.
+1 perfect answer!
Vashappenin; yes, might as well know that!
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I couldn't have gotten a more perfect answer, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Please answer more questions in the psychology forum that I will no doubt be posting in the coming weeks. ;D