Anxiety

Mr. Goodyear, a 25 year old single male that works as auto mechanic. He has no siblings and he says

he has been a loner all his life. Mr. Goodyear attempted suicide at the age of 16, due to being bullied in

school. He complains of rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, shaking, sweating, chills, hot flashes and

chest pain. Mr. Goodyear also experiences dry mouth, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Mr. Goodyear

and his girlfriend of 5 years just recently broke up. He feels the break up is not the cause, because he

broke up with his girlfriend first. He continues to work and is currently trying to start his own business.

Mr. Goodyear went to his primary care doctor and was prescribed Xanax to see if it would help. After 3

weeks of treatment the drug seemed to help but he complained about hearing voices telling him to

commit suicide. Mr. Goodyear also has been drinking heavily mixing the alcohol with the medication.

Mr. Goodyear has recently been showing up to work late and hangover. His manager noticed the

situation and threating to fire him if this continues to happen.

Cognitive theoretical perspective concerns itself with the study of mental processes wherein behavior

is examined typically for the primary use as an avenue into the underlying mental processes, in the same

manner as would a physicist would infer the force of gravity from the behavior of objects in the world

(Robinson-Riegler, 2008). Cognitive psychology is a sub discipline of psychology which works from the

cognitive perspective theory using scientific method in an attempt to answer fundamental questions

about how the mind works such as in automatic processing, metacognition, retrieval blocks, mental sets,

divided attention, memory, language, and reasoning. Alternative approaches to cognitive psychology

have been mostly influenced by Descartes where in the mind and body is treated as two separate

entities. However in Mr. Goodyear’s case, a...