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Anxiety and Sensory Processing Disorder – Which Comes First?
So today we’re talking about sensoryprocessing ill and suspicion and which comes first.Is it sometimes that we get anxious and therefore we become sensory reactive andsuper sensitive or under energized or is it that our sensory causes theproblem and this is a really good question and it’s a really important oneto address well so we’re really just going to introduce some of the conceptsjust now and generating some things into the room that we need to think aboutwe’re not going to solve all the problems that the issue fetches upbecause that would take days.So let’s give it a go from anoccupational care position when we think about sensory processing disorderand anxiety we’re really starting to wonder if the distress that our client is carrying is really secondary to the sensory processing disorder thechallenges that that generates and so that’s really where I’m going to speakto today and we will bring in a psychologistlater to talk about when feeling is the primary part of the picture and more ofthe root cause of what’s going on. So if we think about the sensory systems andreally try and unpack them and go deep with what it might mean to have adysfunction in one or many of them then we can start to understand that it wouldnaturally be a cause of nervousnes because fluctuation needs to be organized and underour assure to feel safe our sensory structures have a awfully primitive functionof impeding us alive as well as helping us to move, move beautifully, move withfinesse, navigate gaps and become social creatures.The firstly patch though is this safety keeping us aliveOur sense of balance, our vestibular sense that spirit level ofliquid in the inner ear and quartzs that tells us if we’re upright againstgravity or where we are that method, its first part is to keep us aliveand if we get turned upside down real quickit’s gonna make all the alarms go off and it’s going to be telling us that weneed to change something pretty quick so we go into a regime of flight or into astate of push or even more serious into a freeze district when this system sendsall the alarms off.Also when the system isn’t getting enough informationit starts to wonder if I’m safe and alarm systems, alarm bells start to ring.So for example if you’ve ever been in an elevator and there’s that time beforeyou can really tell if you’re moving yet or not, there’s that instant andpeople start to look at each other like are we okay? what’s about to happen here? because we’re not had enough data sufficient information from our vestibularsystem to really assess if we’re safe, if the situation is okay which course we’removing. And again that sense of frighten that you get when you’re on a publictransport, maybe a bus and the bus next to you which one’s moving is it me orthe bus next to me? My visual arrangement and my vestibular arrangement are in conflict andI can’t tell what’s going on, I go into alarm.So these are just examplestrying to help us empathize with individuals who struggle with theirvestibular information on a daytoday basis and that state of deepened fright, arousal that they get into or that they exist in for most of the day, which wouldlook like an anxiety disorder but it’s not it’s not clinical nervousnes in thosesituations, it’s anxiety that’s caused by a lack of integration of the vestibular arrangement with perhaps other organisations contesting report , not enoughinformation and being too quickly and too often in a state of oppose or flight orfreeze.The same falls for our position sense our proprioceptors which arepredominantly in our joints and when we get compression or when we get tractionon our seams we know where we are in space. I often would fall asleep on myarm and go to that level past pins and needles when my limb is just like is iteven there ?! and that if you’ve ever known that is really alarming, thealarm systems go off and your mas starts to say this is not okay, I’ve losta whole limb here and you know what’s happened is that there’s that blood flowhas been a problem, the proprioceptors aren’t serving very well.Your senseof proprioception maintains you fastened and grinded in your own body and when thatsystem is inaccurate, it’s inconsistent, it’s not giving you greatinformation then your arousal goes up and you start to have alarm bells goingoff in your lower mentality saying I’m not safe, I need to be wary, I need to orientto everything that’s going on around me and that inspects again that caution, thatanxiety.But it’s got a sensory root in these cases, but we don’t call theseanxiety agitations, we’re visit that a response to what’s going on with thesensory systems and we could go on with speciman after speciman. A reallyimportant one to think about is the child who really has trouble withmultiple sensory organisations at once and the most challenging environment for thatchild generally speaking is institution because the school environment isloud, it has buzzers, it has visual jumble, there are things hanging from theceiling, there are Mobile’s, there are still posters, there’s Halloween presentations, there’s resembles in the cafeteria, children are entirely unpredictable and they slap you andthey push you and your nervous system is constantly vigilantly trying to keep youalive and you looks just like a uneasy child an vigorous child a child withbehaviors but it comes back down to sensory processing. So this is wherewe start to say with some of our children is the sensory or is thisanxiety? When this child’s at clas they cannot coping, their patience for stressis minimal because they’re using all their resources just to get through theday, or are they so stressed that they’re reactive and we need to figure out whichone comes first.And some of these children where the multisensory piece isthe problematic piece so what we do with those minors is we increase as much stressas possible, we cater to their sensory systems, we nourish their sensory plans, we settled them in the claim regiman, we look at the other accentuates in their life arethey getting enough sleep? Are they imbibing enough water? Are they eatingenough food? How are their relationships? How is their timetable? How are theygetting to school? What’s their socioeconomic status? All of thesestresses we look what i found, we nourish the sensory systems and then we wait and wewatch and we start to unpack.And if this child is able to adapt better when wenourish their sensory systems and adapt the environment, then we know thatfundamentally what’s going on here is not anxiety but that the sensorystresses are so great that they’re causing an anxiety response. But if afteradapting and treating for sensory the suspicion is still particularly prevailing then werefer we find a really good mental health provider who are familiar with sensory but we refer to them and we get them involved and we start unpacking the restof the picture and what’s going on and that’s really important. So that’s been alittle introduction to sensory processing disorder and nervousnes and theinteractions between the two. It’s sensory awareness month. I’m VirginiaSpielmann the associate chairman of STAR Institute now and weare trying to raise awareness, educate and research more into sensoryprocessing ailments so there will be a link that we’d love you to click on toshow your subsistence. Please share, note and give us know what you want todiscuss .. 
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Why Do Depression and Anxiety Go Together?
[♪ INTRO ] If you’ve ever experienced anxiety and depression
— in the clinical sense, I mean — you’ll know that they can feel really different. With anxiety, you’re all ramped up. And with depression, you’re very, very down. Yet they tend to go together. And a lot of medications, especially certain
types of antidepressants, can be used to treat both. We still don’t know a ton about how exactly
anxiety and depression work in the brain — or how antidepressants work to treat them. But over time, psychologists have come to
realize that the two types of conditions are surprisingly similar. They may feel very different in the moment. But they actually have a lot of symptoms in
common, and involve some very similar thought patterns. They might even have similar brain chemistries. So if you’re looking to understand a little
more about how anxiety and depression manifest themselves — whether for yourself or for
someone else in your life — those connections are a good place to start.
Depression and anxiety aren’t really specific disorders — they’re generic terms for types of disorders. But the most common, and most closely linked, are major depressive disorder, or MDD, and generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD. In any given year in the U.S., where it’s easiest to find detailed statistics, about 7% of the population will have MDD, and about 3% will have GAD. Lots of those people have both: About 2/3 of people with major depression also have some kind of anxiety disorder, and about 2/3 of people with generalized anxiety disorder also have major depression. And whether you have one or the other or both, the same medications are often at the top of the list to help treat it — usually antidepressants. Unsurprisingly, psychologists have noticed these statistics. But for a long time, we’ve thought of generalized anxiety and major depression as very different things, and understandably so. Probably the most noticeable symptom of anxiety is arousal, which in psychology is a technical term rather than a specifically sexual thing. It basically just means being on high alert — whether psychologically, with increased awareness, or physically, with things like a racing heart and sweaty palms.
Arousal isn’t part of major depression, though. And there’s a key symptom of MDD that doesn’t usually show up in generalized anxiety: low positive affect, which is the technical term for not getting much pleasure out of life and feeling lethargic and just kind of … blah. So there are important differences between anxiety and depression, which is part of why they’re still considered separate classes of disorders. But when you look at the other symptoms, you start to realize that major depression and generalized anxiety have almost everything else in common. There’s restlessness, fatigue, irritability, problems with concentration, sleep disturbances … the list goes on.
And that’s just in the official diagnostic criteria. So for decades, psychologists have been examining the models they use to describe anxiety and depression in the brain to see if they point to a similar source for both types of disorders. They’ve come up with lots of different ideas, as researchers do, but the most common ones tend to center around the fight or flight response to stress. Fight or flight kicks in when you’re confronted with something your mind sees as a threat, and it automatically prepares you to either fight or run away. And when you think about it, anxiety and depression are just different types of flight. Psychologists often characterize anxiety as a sense of helplessness, at its core, and depression as a sense of hopelessness. Anxiety might feel like you’re looking for ways to fight back. But part of what makes it a disorder is that it’s not a short-lived feeling that’s easily resolved once you have a plan.
Of course, as with all things mental health, anxiety disorders can be deeply personal and won’t feel the same for everybody. But clinical anxiety does tend to be more pervasive. The worry sticks around and starts to take over your life because it doesn’t feel like something you can conquer. So anxiety and depression might just be slightly different ways of expressing the same flight response: helplessness or hopelessness. And maybe that’s part of why they so often go together. That connection also shows up on the biochemical side of the stress response. There are a lot of hormones involved in this response, and their effects interact in super complex ways that scientists still don’t fully understand.
But both depressive and anxiety disorders are closely associated with an oversensitive stress response system. Researchers think that’s one reason both of these types of disorders are so much more common in people who’ve experienced major stresses like trauma or childhood abuse. Those stressors could make their stress response system more sensitive. The main hormones involved aren’t always the same, but the changes can cause some of the same symptoms — problems with sleep, for example. So anxiety and depression seem to be two sides of a similar reaction to stress, in terms of both thought processes and hormones. Still, that doesn’t really explain why some antidepressants can treat both anxiety and depression. Because those medications primarily affect neurotransmitters, the molecules your brain cells use to send messages to each other. If you thought we had a lot left to learn about how the stress response works, we know even less about what the brain chemistry of anxiety and depression looks like, or how antidepressants help. But if the thought processes and physical responses that go along with these disorders aren’t quite as different as they seem on the surface, it makes sense that the brain chemistry would be similar, too.
And that’s exactly what scientists have found. More specifically, lots of studies have pointed to lower levels of the neurotransmitter known as serotonin as a major factor in both anxiety and depression. Researchers have even identified some more specific cellular receptors that seem to be involved in both. There’s also some evidence that the way the brain handles another neurotransmitter, norepinephrine, can be similar in both anxiety and depression. Since most antidepressants work by increasing serotonin levels, and some of them also affect norepinephrine, that could explain why they’re so helpful for both anxiety and depression. Although again, there’s a lot we don’t know about their exact mechanisms. Ultimately, there’s no denying that in the moment, anxiety and depression can seem like very different feelings. And if someone has both types of disorders — well, it’s easy to see how that could feel overwhelming. Like, it’s hard enough treating generalized anxiety or major depression on their own.
And it’s true that it is often harder to treat these conditions when someone has both. But maybe not twice as hard. After all, anxiety and depressive disorders have a lot in common, from their symptoms to the basic brain chemistry behind them to some of the treatments that can help. The fact that they often go together can be really tough. But understanding more about why that is has also pointed us toward better treatments and more effective therapies, that really can help. Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow Psych. If you're looking for someone to talk to about your mental health, we left a few resources in this video’s description. And if you'd like to learn more general info about treatments, you can watch our episode on misconceptions about antidepressants. [♪ OUTRO ].
Depression and anxiety aren’t really specific disorders — they’re generic terms for types of disorders. But the most common, and most closely linked, are major depressive disorder, or MDD, and generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD. In any given year in the U.S., where it’s easiest to find detailed statistics, about 7% of the population will have MDD, and about 3% will have GAD. Lots of those people have both: About 2/3 of people with major depression also have some kind of anxiety disorder, and about 2/3 of people with generalized anxiety disorder also have major depression. And whether you have one or the other or both, the same medications are often at the top of the list to help treat it — usually antidepressants. Unsurprisingly, psychologists have noticed these statistics. But for a long time, we’ve thought of generalized anxiety and major depression as very different things, and understandably so. Probably the most noticeable symptom of anxiety is arousal, which in psychology is a technical term rather than a specifically sexual thing. It basically just means being on high alert — whether psychologically, with increased awareness, or physically, with things like a racing heart and sweaty palms.
Arousal isn’t part of major depression, though. And there’s a key symptom of MDD that doesn’t usually show up in generalized anxiety: low positive affect, which is the technical term for not getting much pleasure out of life and feeling lethargic and just kind of … blah. So there are important differences between anxiety and depression, which is part of why they’re still considered separate classes of disorders. But when you look at the other symptoms, you start to realize that major depression and generalized anxiety have almost everything else in common. There’s restlessness, fatigue, irritability, problems with concentration, sleep disturbances … the list goes on.
And that’s just in the official diagnostic criteria. So for decades, psychologists have been examining the models they use to describe anxiety and depression in the brain to see if they point to a similar source for both types of disorders. They’ve come up with lots of different ideas, as researchers do, but the most common ones tend to center around the fight or flight response to stress. Fight or flight kicks in when you’re confronted with something your mind sees as a threat, and it automatically prepares you to either fight or run away. And when you think about it, anxiety and depression are just different types of flight. Psychologists often characterize anxiety as a sense of helplessness, at its core, and depression as a sense of hopelessness. Anxiety might feel like you’re looking for ways to fight back. But part of what makes it a disorder is that it’s not a short-lived feeling that’s easily resolved once you have a plan.
Of course, as with all things mental health, anxiety disorders can be deeply personal and won’t feel the same for everybody. But clinical anxiety does tend to be more pervasive. The worry sticks around and starts to take over your life because it doesn’t feel like something you can conquer. So anxiety and depression might just be slightly different ways of expressing the same flight response: helplessness or hopelessness. And maybe that’s part of why they so often go together. That connection also shows up on the biochemical side of the stress response. There are a lot of hormones involved in this response, and their effects interact in super complex ways that scientists still don’t fully understand.
But both depressive and anxiety disorders are closely associated with an oversensitive stress response system. Researchers think that’s one reason both of these types of disorders are so much more common in people who’ve experienced major stresses like trauma or childhood abuse. Those stressors could make their stress response system more sensitive. The main hormones involved aren’t always the same, but the changes can cause some of the same symptoms — problems with sleep, for example. So anxiety and depression seem to be two sides of a similar reaction to stress, in terms of both thought processes and hormones. Still, that doesn’t really explain why some antidepressants can treat both anxiety and depression. Because those medications primarily affect neurotransmitters, the molecules your brain cells use to send messages to each other. If you thought we had a lot left to learn about how the stress response works, we know even less about what the brain chemistry of anxiety and depression looks like, or how antidepressants help. But if the thought processes and physical responses that go along with these disorders aren’t quite as different as they seem on the surface, it makes sense that the brain chemistry would be similar, too.
And that’s exactly what scientists have found. More specifically, lots of studies have pointed to lower levels of the neurotransmitter known as serotonin as a major factor in both anxiety and depression. Researchers have even identified some more specific cellular receptors that seem to be involved in both. There’s also some evidence that the way the brain handles another neurotransmitter, norepinephrine, can be similar in both anxiety and depression. Since most antidepressants work by increasing serotonin levels, and some of them also affect norepinephrine, that could explain why they’re so helpful for both anxiety and depression. Although again, there’s a lot we don’t know about their exact mechanisms. Ultimately, there’s no denying that in the moment, anxiety and depression can seem like very different feelings. And if someone has both types of disorders — well, it’s easy to see how that could feel overwhelming. Like, it’s hard enough treating generalized anxiety or major depression on their own.
And it’s true that it is often harder to treat these conditions when someone has both. But maybe not twice as hard. After all, anxiety and depressive disorders have a lot in common, from their symptoms to the basic brain chemistry behind them to some of the treatments that can help. The fact that they often go together can be really tough. But understanding more about why that is has also pointed us toward better treatments and more effective therapies, that really can help. Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow Psych. If you're looking for someone to talk to about your mental health, we left a few resources in this video’s description. And if you'd like to learn more general info about treatments, you can watch our episode on misconceptions about antidepressants. [♪ OUTRO ].
Panic attacks (Free Course Trailer)
I just thought I was going mad. Yes definitely. Research suggests about 1 in 10 of us will experience a panic attack in our lifetime. and between 1 in 50 and 1 in 20 we'll go on to experience
panic disorder reoccurring panic attacks that really impact people's ability to
live their lives your heart may double in speed racing. Your breathing increases, your stomach turns over your legs are like jelly. You
make me feel hot and cold you may be sweating a lot, skin going white, your
mouth may go dry, hair stand on end. The physical experience of a panic attack is
so powerful and frightening people often feel sure they are dying or that they
are going crazy. I felt I wasn't coping with stuff every
day stuff that other people were seemingly coping with and I just felt a
failure. People with panic disorder often avoid places or situations that might
trigger a panic attack. As a result, their lives can get smaller.
But research has led to increased understanding of panic attacks and to treatment and forms of self-help that can really make a difference. To find out more about what panic attacks are. How psychology understands them and what can help, try this free course from the Open University Get more from The Open University Check out the links on screen now..
But research has led to increased understanding of panic attacks and to treatment and forms of self-help that can really make a difference. To find out more about what panic attacks are. How psychology understands them and what can help, try this free course from the Open University Get more from The Open University Check out the links on screen now..
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
Hello, this is Dr Grande Today.’s, question is what is Illness Anxiety Disorder If you find this video to be interesting or helpful, please like it and subscribe to my channel That way, you won’t miss any new videos. Now, when we talk about illness, anxiety disorder, we talk about a mental disorder where an individual is preoccupied with concern about having a serious illness, and this is an interesting disorder because it’s fairly, similar to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. And there’s even a debate. In a mental health community About whether or not Illness, Anxiety disorder is really just a variant of OCD. So when we look at the criteria for Illness, Anxiety Disorder, there’s, another interesting feature. A lot of mental disorders in the DSM have a symptom criteria section and Then other criteria. So there may be Nine symptoms in the symptom criteria section and somebody might have to meet four or five of those symptoms to qualify For that criterion. And then there are other criteria that have to qualify for as well With illness, anxiety disorder. All of the different criteria are required. There is no section in the DSM with illness, anxiety disorder That has a number of symptoms where somebody only has to meet a certain Number less than that for the diagnosis. For example, if we consider Borderline Personality Disorder, that disorder has nine symptoms in the symptom criteria, But an individual only needs to have five of those to qualify for that diagnosis. So again with Illness, Anxiety, Disorder, all the symptoms are required. So the first symptom is a preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious illness. Now the DSM doesn’t specifically say that this would be a mental disorder or a medical disorder, but most of the time we interpret this as relating to a possible medical disorder, a concern over having or getting a medical disorder, because we usually conceptualize this first Criterion as being related to medical disorders, this brings up an important point in terms of the distinction between a talk therapist and a physician. For example, I have a PhD in counselor education and supervision and I’m a licensed counselor. I’m, not a physician and most talk. Therapists are not physicians either. So with this particular diagnosis of illness, anxiety disorder. As a talk therapist, you would be working with somebody who has complaints or concerns about a medical disorder. So it’s important to make the referral to a physician so that you know if they in fact have the disorder or don’t That’s an important element in terms of the mental health treatment to know if that medical disorder is really there Or not Now, of course, a lot of times when we treat individuals with Illness, Anxiety Disorder, they have been referred by a physician and we already have the information that shows that they did not qualify for a diagnosis of any type of medical disorder, at least not The medical disorder that they’re worried about. The second criterion is that there are little or no somatic symptoms, So there’s another disorder, which is difficult to differentiate from Illness, Anxiety, Disorder, called Somatic Symptom Disorder, and I have another video that discusses these two disorders. Together With Illness, Anxiety Disorder, there can be mild somatic symptoms, but that’s really not the emphasis as the symptom criterion suggests. The anxiety is not coming primarily from physical, sensations of the person’s having, but rather the meaning or significance of having the illness. That they’re worried about having The third symptom criterion is the individual is experiencing a high level anxiety about health related concerns? The fourth is that there’s excessive health related behavior, like checking or maladaptive avoidance, so a lot of times we think of this disorder and compare it to OCD. It’s, this particular symptom criterion. That makes it difficult to distinguish the two, because that health related behavior, as I mentioned oftentimes, involves checking and, of course, OCD oftentimes involves checking The fifth symptom criteria is that the disturbance has been present for six months, but the illness that the person is worried about. Can change in that time So a lot of times we think of Illness, Anxiety Disorder, we think of one particular illness that the person is worried about having or acquiring, But sometimes with this disorder. If they have evidence that shows that they don’t have a particular medical disorder, they were worried about. Then they might develop a fear about another potential medical disorder, So the illness can change, but the disturbance would be present for at least six months, and The sixth symptom criterion is that this disturbance is not better explained by another mental disorder and there’s a Number of mental disorders listed in the DSM as examples. One of them is OCD Again, emphasizing this difficult differentiation between illness, anxiety disorder and OCD. It’s important to note here as well that somebody can have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Illness Anxiety Disorder. At the same time, These can be comorbid and oftentimes. They are comorbid This six symptom criterion that not better explained by another mental disorder criterion. Doesn’t mean that the two can’t co occur. It just means that if you’re looking at a presentation that you think is Illness, Anxiety, Disorder and the symptoms are in fact better explained by OCD, then you would consider OCD over illness anxiety disorder. This can certainly become confusing, but the term not better explained doesn’t mean that the two are mutually exclusive, that the two disorders cannot co occur. Now it’s also important to note that, with illness anxiety disorder, There are two subtypes. These are not specifiers, but rather subtypes, So an individual would have to have one, and only one of these subtypes There’s the care seeking type and the care avoiding type. So an individual with Illness. Anxiety Disorder would have to be categorized as one of these two types they could not be assigned both types. Some other interesting associated characteristics with Illness. Anxiety Disorder include that there’s, usually not a desire for perfectionism. With this disorder like we would see with OCD and also in terms of what medical disorder or serious illness somebody’s worried about it:’s, oftentimes, not a communicable illness, so the concern would more likely be over a medical disorder like cancer or heart disease. As opposed to influenza, Now in terms of the treatment for Illness, Anxiety Disorder, we don’t have a lot of research on the treatment effectiveness for illness, anxiety disorder specifically, but generally, we believe that mental health talk therapy is somewhat effective in relieving the symptoms of Illness, Anxiety Disorder. I hope you found this description of Illness Anxiety Disorder to be interesting Thanks for watching