What Is Anxiety Disorder
What is anxiety disorder? Anxiety disorders can affect your daily life activities and may worsen if immediate treatment is not given.
Is there anything that makes you worry lately? It is completely normal to worry about things in life like your hectic schedules, rocky relationships, job interviews, and the many things our complicated life brings us. But, if the worries become too much that you may feel so choked up and that you are not in control of your life anymore, they might be symptoms of anxiety disorders.
What is anxiety disorder? Anxiety disorders are affecting people age 18 years and above, causing them to be filled with fear and uncertainty. It is defined as excessive anxiety and worry, happening more days than not for at least 6 months and can get worse if they are not treated. The person with anxiety disorder finds it difficult to control his/her anxiety. Anxiety disorders usually occur along with other mental or physical illnesses, including drug or alcohol abuse, to mask the symptoms or worsen them. Each anxiety disorder has different symptoms, but all the symptoms cluster around excessive, unreasonable fear and dread.
Some of the common types of anxiety disorders are separation anxiety, social anxiety or phobia, selective mutism, panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder (PST), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and specific phobia.
Separation Anxiety is an excessive anxiety relating to separation from home or someone you are so attached with. The symptoms mostly relate to the recurrent fear of being separated from someone or something you are so attached with and accompanied by physical symptoms like nausea, stomachaches, headaches, or chest pain.
Social Anxiety disorder, also called social phobia, is diagnosed when you become overwhelmingly anxious and extremely fearful of social interactions. People with this illness have intense, persistent, and constant fear of being watched and judged, and other things that can put them in an embarrassing position. They can worry for days before the actual situation takes place and this feeling may worsen.. interfering with work, school, and other activities.
Selective mutism is the consistent failure to speak in a specific social situation where speech is anticipated inspite of be able to speak in other situations. According to research, there is a relation between social phobia and selective mutism.
OCD is an anxiety disorder where a person has recurrent and unwanted ideas or impulses (called obsessions), and an urge or compulsion to do something to relieve their discomfort caused by obsession. A person with OCD has senseless, repetitive, distressing, and sometimes harmful habits that are also difficult to overcome.
PTSD is a debilitating condition that follows a terrifying event. Usually, people with posttraumatic stress disorder have persistent frightening thoughts and memories of their ordeal and feel emotionally numb even with people they used to be so closed with. The signs and symptoms usually appear within 3 months of the tragic event.
Panic disorder has brief episodes of intense fear and is accompanied by various physical symptoms like heart palpitations, nausea, chest pain, etc., that occur repeatedly and not knowingly in the absence of external threat.
Agoraphobia is an incapacitating fear for open spaces. It is a disorder characterized by avoidance of crowds and open and public spaces. Agoraphobia can lead to extreme anxiety and evasion, resulting a sufferer to become housebound.
General anxiety disorder is characterized by diffused feelings of apprehensions with physiological symptoms. It is one of the most common anxiety disorders and is described as excessive anxiety and worry about two or more life circumstances for a period of six months.
Specific phobia is an intense fear for specific things or situations like, heights, water, closed-in places, spiders, and many others.
These anxiety disorders are curable. The sooner you are diagnosed, the sooner you'll get better. So, if you think you have symptoms of anxiety disorders, don't hesitate to see a doctor. Don't let anxiety disorders ruin your life.
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I took Zanax and that helps me tremendously! Part of your anxiety you have to try and control yourself too. I usually have my panic attacks late at night. Sometimes getting up and drinking a warm glass of milk helps out. Hang in there, okay!
Doctors won't admit it but every woman who has experienced a modicum of stress can tell you that it changes your cycle. I have schizoaffective disorder and i have really irregular periods that only started being off when my mood goes from one extreme to the other. It's normal.
Scrambled connections between the part of the brain that processes fear and emotion and other brain regions could be the hallmark of a common anxiety disorder, according to a new study. The findings could help researchers identify biological differences between types of anxiety disorders as well as such disorders as depression.
No.
And as someone who actually has Anxiety Disorder, you're trivializing it a bit.
One, AD is not all about "fearing doom." That's more paranoia. Anxiety Disorder is when you can tell yourself that there's no logical reason for the way you feel, but you can't get your body to agree with you: you exhibit psychosomatic symptoms, most often related to the fight/flight instincts, even if you know in your head that there's no logical reason for you to be panicked about anything. There's no specific reason for most anxiety or panic attacks, though some people do have triggers. It can happen anytime, anywhere, with no reason at all. I've had panic attacks getting a shower. LOL
Two, I don't know how many religions you've heard of, but mine doesn't feature a guilty conscience *or* a displeased deity. My religion doesn't have an eternal reward vs. punishment afterlife to fear. If anything my religion helps me with my anxiety rather than creates it.
Common Types of Anxiety Disorders
Yes, that can happen from time to time, talk to your doctor, if it’s been happening for that length of time, and try and find ways to manage it. It’s a psychological feeling, not a real pressing need. =)
Smile, wow thank you – I totally made it up as I was standing there that’s why some of it may sound a little tacky but I was trying hard!
just because you are bipolar and may have gad does not mean you have to rob the country by taking SS. I know many people who have productive lives and work too,instead of taking money for nothing and sitting on the computer all day.There are so many meds that can help you stabilize.
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