READING PART B MODEL QUESTION NO 1

 Agoraphobia


The lifetime prevalence of the common psychological problem known as panic disorder is between 1% and 5%.Panic disorder is characterised by recurrent and unexpected panic attacks associated with several comorbid psychiatric and non-psychiatric conditions such as anxiety, depression, and cardiovascular diseases and impairment of social, work, and family functioning. Agoraphobia is a strong fear or anxiety provoked by real or anticipated exposure to a wide range of situations and is often associated with panic disorder. Successive revisions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III, DSM-III-R, and DSM-IV) provide similar definitions of panic disorder, refined with each new edition; but in the fifth revision (DSM-5) panic disorder and agoraphobia have been defined individually.


Q.Paragraph is about.

  1. about the difference between agoraphobia and panic attack.

  2. About how DSM will define 

  3. About the separate definition of agoraphobia.