PSYCH 118: Anxiety Disorders - Clinical Features
Medlock Holmes enters the Grand Gallery of Anxious Minds.
At the entrance, every patient appears to have the same complaint:
“I am anxious.”
But Holmes knows that this is only the beginning of the investigation.
Anxiety is found across psychiatry.
The diagnosis depends not simply on the presence of fear, but on what is feared, when it occurs, what the person predicts will happen, and what they do to prevent it.
The gallery therefore separates into several chambers.
The first is the Panic Chamber.
A patient is sitting quietly when a warning bell suddenly erupts.
Heart pounding.
Sweating…
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