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Assignment:
Option 1: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Joe is a 44-year-old, married Latino male. He presents with racing thoughts and constant worry. He states that he cannot control the anxious thoughts and they are constant. In the session, Joe has a hard time sitting still and his leg bounces up and down the entire time. Speaking more about his anxiety, he states he doesn't sleep much because the worry keeps him from falling and staying asleep. He has had to quit his job because he cannot focus on work, as his racing worried thoughts keep him from concentrating. At home, he paces the floor because he struggles to sit still. Over the past year, he has lost several friends because he loses his patience with them easily. He has stated he has always been a worrier, but it really started to get out of control after he had a car accident last year.
Option 2: Panic disorder
Deanna is a 52-year-old African American married female. She was driving home from work one day when she all of a sudden high tightness in her chest and had a hard time breathing. She thought that she was going to die. Fearing she might be having a heart attack, she pulled into the next parking lot and called an ambulance that took her to the ER. She explained to the doctors that she started feeling dizzy, then had tightness in her chest and hard a hard time breathing, and her heart was pounding fast in her chest. The doctors checked her out and stated she was fine and sent her home. After that, Deanna started to have more attacks like this, even when she was not driving. She started to worry about when the next one would come. She started to avoid driving, fearing that she might cause an accident when one of the attacks comes back and would have her husband drive her where she needed to go.
Analyze the differences between both scenarios: Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder? Do the recommendations differ?
Access the American Psychiatric Association's (2013) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.) and search it to support your suggestions. (Be sure to cite.)