Anxiety Disorder Types

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What is Anxiety Disorder?

Anxiety is an unpleasant feeling and is caused due to an uncontrollable and unavoidable reason of fear. Fear is a physiological and emotional reaction to any recognized external threat. The term anxiety panic disorder is inclusive of fears, phobias and regular anxieties. Such disorders are normally camouflages for all kinds of fear related to pathological fear or anxiety.This came in the group of psychiatry in the end of the nineteenth century. These could be continuous or in sessions depending on the situation.

There are many reasons why a person could feel insecure or fear a particular kind of situation or condition. Anxiety disorder is one such condition where the person experiences unwanted fear to the extent of having a phobia. This is one of the anxiety disorder types where anxiety is the main problem. This anxiety is not necessarily focused on any particular object or situation. The individuals who are victims of anxiety disorder have a kind of fear all the time and are always worried about something or the other. These could be daily routine matters. It normally affects the older people. This is a classic symptom of a medicine abuse in the body and people be aware of this. The first thing that has to be considered while finding out the reasons is if the disorder has been caused due to any drug.

Anxiety disorder is a kind of social phobia. This has a lot of fear and a need to be away from people. Generally, the victim is scared of pubic embarrassment, insult or any kind of social interaction. The person is scared of things like speaking in public and is scared of social interactions. The person experiences a lot of blushing, perspiration, and has a difficulty in speaking. Normally, the person avoids for the reason of phobia and thus he stays away from the society.

Anxiety panic disorder is that category of general emotional disorder wherein the person has a fear of being separated. This separation could be from a person or from a place.This condition is a normal part of child development.About 7% of adults and four percent of children are affected by separation anxiety. The childhood cases are more serious than the adults. There are also instances when a brief separation has resulted in great panic.

Sometimes this disorder has the person performing certain tasks repetitively. These anxiety disorder types could be really distressing for the individual and the habits actually intrude in their regular thoughts and living. The OCD or the obsessive compulsive disorder too is similar to this. The person imagines habits that don't exist at all. Many a time, the entire procedure is not logical. Often it is seen that the problem is only aggravated by a nervous feeling within. Some of the people suffer from this problem but most of them having this general anxiety disorder have habits which are not really harmful.

Sometimes there is a situation that arises from a traumatic experience. This results from situations like a combat, a natural disaster, rape, some kind of situations as in a hostage situation, child abuse. It is also caused when there is a serious accident. It is also seen in soldiers, who have long battles to win and are not able to manage the stress related to it. The common symptoms of this general anxiety disorder are hypervigilance, flashbacks, and behaviors which lead the person to avoid things, anxiety, anger, depression.

In anxiety disorder, the individual suffers from brief episodes of acute terror and fear. This is symbolized by a lot of trembling, shaking and the individual is in a confused state of mind. He feels dizzy and also has a lot of nausea. The person finds it difficult to breathe also. These panic attacks last for around ten minutes and sometimes last for many hours. These are normally triggered by stress, fear, etc.

There are also cases where the panic attacks have a lot of chronic results. Sometimes the victim feels symptoms even when there is no panic attack. Problems like a faster heart beat are felt by the victim even under normal conditions.

Agoraphobia is a condition where the person has the fear of having a panic attack. This leads to a lot of anxiety as the individual constantly fears of having an attack and this leads him into a frenzy. This could make the person a recluse from social life.

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