Anxiety

Anxiety is a mental health disorder characterized by feelings of worry, anxiety, or fear that are strong enough to interfere with one's daily activities. The cause of anxiety is a combination of genetic and environmental factors. The genetic factors include a history of child abuse, family history of mental disorders, and poverty. Without treatment, anixety disorders tend to stay the wholte time.

Different Types of Anxiety Disorders

• Panic Disorders
• Social Anxiety Disorder
• Specific Phobias
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Panic Disorder

• A Panic Disorder is when you feel nervous or scared at a random moment in time. During this attack you may sweat have chest pain, and feel strong or irregular heartbeats.A person with panic disorder may become discouraged and feel ashamed because he or she cannot carry out normal routines like going to school or work, going to the grocery store, or driving. Panic disorder often begins in the late teens or early adulthood. More women than men have panic disorder. But not everyone who experiences panic attacks will develop panic disorder.

Social Anxiety Disorder

• This disorder is also called a social phobia. This is when you feel overwhelmed when you are in any situation when talking to other people or around them. You are scared that other wil judge what you you look like and what you do. Symptoms may be so extreme that they disrupt daily life. People with this disorder may have few or no social or romantic relationships, making them feel powerless, alone, or even ashamed.

Specific Phobias

• This phobia is when you have an intense fear of a specific object or situation. Some examples are heights, spiders, and bad grades. This fear may cause you to not be yourself and it may cause you to avoid certain situations. But people with specific phobias, or strong irrational fear reactions, work hard to avoid common places, situations, or objects even though they know there's no threat or danger. The fear may not make any sense, but they feel powerless to stop it. Having phobias can disrupt daily routines, limit work efficiency, reduce self-esteem, and place a strain on relationships because people will do whatever they can to avoid the uncomfortable and often-terrifying feelings of phobic anxiety.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• This is when you feel unrealistic worry and tension with no reason at all.People with this disorder may anticipate disaster and may be overly concerned about money, health, family, work, or other issues. Individuals with this find it difficult to control their worry. GAD affects 6.8 million adults, or 3.1% of the U.S. population, in any given year. Women are twice as likely to be affected. The disorder comes on gradually and can begin across the life cycle, though the risk is highest between childhood and middle age.

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