What Are the Anxiety Disorders
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Written by HealthyPlace.com Staff Writer
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Oct 02, 2008 |
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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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Last Updated( Jan 22, 2009 )
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reviewed by:
Harry Croft, MD (Psychiatrist)
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