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Clinical Recognition

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✓ The Bipolar Spectrum
Bipolar I, II, and cyclothymia 100%
6 The OCD Spectrum
OCD, BDD, hoarding, hair pulling, skin picking
7 Trauma & Stressor Disorders
PTSD, acute stress, adjustment, prolonged grief
8 Dissociative & Somatic Disorders
Dissociation, somatic symptom, illness anxiety, FND

Lesson 5

Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders share physiology and differ by object and avoidance pattern. The differentiating question is always some version of: what exactly are you afraid will happen, and what do you avoid because of it?

Recognition anchors: GAD worry roams across domains for six months or more and refuses to be controlled; take one topic away and another fills the vacancy. Panic disorder fears the attack itself, and for a month or more after, life reorganizes around dreading the next one. Agoraphobia fears situations where escape or help might be unavailable if symptoms strike. Social anxiety fears negative evaluation by other people. Specific phobia fires instantly and reliably around one focal trigger while the rest of life stays calm.

Panic and the fear of fear

Panic disorder needs two things: terrifying surges that crest within minutes, arriving out of nowhere with pounding heart, air hunger, dizziness, unreality, or the conviction of dying, and a life colonized afterward by dread of the next attack, whether through worry or quiet rearrangement (skipping exercise, avoiding solo outings, hovering near hospitals).

Careful. Panic attacks are convincing cardiac impostors, and the reverse is also true. Clear the medical lane first: cardiac and thyroid conditions and stimulant or caffeine effects can reproduce the attack picture. And remember the hinge of unexpectedness: attacks fired only by a known trigger, like public speaking, point to that trigger's disorder rather than panic disorder.

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Dev, 34, has had several abrupt surges of pounding heart, air hunger, and certainty he was dying, arriving out of nowhere at the grocery store and while watching TV. He has been to the ER twice, stopped exercising, and keeps his phone in hand in case he needs an ambulance. The diagnostic hinge pointing toward panic disorder is:

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