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What are the Anxiety
Disorders
There are five major Anxiety Disorders, but it is not unusual for
there to be an overlap between the Disorders. A person can
experience more than one of them. Diagnosis and treatment is now
aimed at the primary presenting problem, with follow up treatment to
address symptoms of the other Disorders.
The Disorders include:
- PANIC DISORDER which
is the experience of spontaneous Panic Attacks. The intensity of
the attack can be extremely severe and many people feel they are
having a heart attack and/or are going to die or are going
insane. It is not unusual for people to become chronically
anxious about having another one.
- POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER can develop following a
major physical or mental trauma. This Disorder is characterized
by 'flashbacks' and or nightmares during which the traumatic
event is re-experienced.
- SOCIAL PHOBIA is the
experience of fear and/or anxiety in social situations in which
people fear they may embarrass themselves in some way.
- OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER is the experience of
obsessive unwanted thoughts and/or compulsive behaviors that may
include rituals and can markedly interfere with normal
functioning.
- GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER is persistence and
excessive anxiety or worry experienced for six months or more
about events or activities which may, or may not, happen.
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