PA Boards 32: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2014
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Common things are common! Generalized anxiety disorder is one of the most common psych diagnosis you will encounter in clinical practice, and on the boards. Let's go over how to diagnose these patients, along with the proper treatment. I'll also share some pearls regarding SSRIs that you need to be aware of!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's going on guys, and welcome to episode 32 of the Physician |
| 0:04.1 | assistant boards.com podcast, and today we're going to be speaking about |
| 0:07.7 | generalized anxiety disorder. Now generalized anxiety disorder, along with depression depression are probably the two most common psych disorders that you are going to be dealing with on a day-to-day basis. |
| 0:19.0 | So for that reason, it's very important that you really understand how to actually diagnose somebody with |
| 0:24.7 | generalized anxiety disorder. |
| 0:27.0 | And once we get the diagnosis down, then we're going to go ahead and start talking about |
| 0:31.2 | how we can actually provide treatment for |
| 0:32.8 | these patients. Very, very common, like I stated in every other podcast, the |
| 0:38.8 | boards like to test things that are common because common things are common. |
| 0:43.0 | So we're going to be going over generalizing anxiety disorder today. |
| 0:46.0 | Before we get started with that, I want to thank everybody that sent me an email |
| 0:50.0 | over at Andrew Reed at physician assistant boards.com telling me what they |
| 0:56.1 | actually want to see on that pants review book right so really I'm making this |
| 1:00.2 | book to fulfill your needs so for that reason I really appreciate all of the |
| 1:04.4 | feedback I've been getting. I've gotten some interesting answers and I've |
| 1:08.5 | gotten things that kind of scattered throughout the board but one of the most common recurring themes that I've been |
| 1:14.3 | seeing is you want questions so you want to see questions at the end of each |
| 1:18.6 | maybe organ system that we review and so that's kind of the recurring thing that I've seen |
| 1:23.7 | there for those that haven't sent me an email I'd really appreciate an email so that |
| 1:27.7 | way we can get the ball rolling and really you know create something that's |
| 1:31.3 | beneficial to you so we don't create something that's already out there because there'd be no point |
| 1:36.7 | and you can already buy what's out there. So like I said my point is to make this |
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