Marybeth is studying the levels of anxiety and how they affect a person's lifestyle. She is doing a presentation for her final paper in her mental health class
a. Discuss the different levels of anxiety.
b. What are the symptoms of each?
Students' answers should include the following:
a. The different levels of anxiety include mild, moderate, severe, and panic.
b. Symptoms include for each are listed below with each level.
• Mild—heightened attention, intact reality, accurate processing of information, expanded sensory perception, and increased blood pressure and heart rate
• Moderate—distracted, impaired concentration, narrow perception, irritable, tremors, volume and pitch of speech changes, with sleep disturbances
• Severe—decreased attention span, impaired learning ability, inaccurate processing of information, fine motor skills are impaired, limited communication skills, hyperventilation, tachycardia, dizziness, and palpitations
• Panic—exaggeration of details and events, fragmented thought process, disabled learning ability, distorted perception, incoherent speech, fainting, dyspnea, diaphoresis, haphazard movements
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