Brief Introduction Into Anxiety Disorders
In a medical terminology, anxiety disorder usually refers to a state
of nervousness or uneasiness. Anxiety disorder is one of the most
common mental health disorders. It is basically defined as a critical
disturbance in the mental state that can ultimately lead to chronic
anxiety. It usually arises due to work pressure, highly constrained
work schedules which tend to disturb the mood or behavior of a person.
However, if proper anxiety treatments are not followed well in time, it
can even harm the mental state of a person.
A person suffering from anxiety disorder often experiences a
long-drawn-out feeling of distress or fright and discomfortness. This
disorder can further create a bad impact on relationships with friends,
family and the colleagues.
Various Symptoms / Signs of Anxiety disorder:
So far researchers have conducted an in-depth study to determine the
precise reason for anxiety disorders. Finally, they have concluded that
this trouble mainly arises due to the biological factors along with
various personal situations faced by an individual. This disorder not
only affects the individual's behavior, thoughts, action, emotions but
also the physical health. It is so common that individual anxiety
disorder can be seen. Moreover, an individual can suffer even more than
one anxiety disorder at a time. Anxiety disorder is accompanied by a
series of other troubles as well including depression, substance abuse
or eating disorders.
Various symptoms/signs of anxiety disorder include:
Panic disorder is basically a type of anxiety disorder. Such a type
of disorder is usually experienced in the unexpected panic attacks that
come along with the feeling of fear. This attack can also affect the
physical health of a person, thus resulting in breathing problems,
severe pain in chest, heart strokes, and fear of death as well as acute
pain in the abdomen.
- Agoraphobia , with or without panic disorder:
This is basically a condition in which a person fails to avoid or escape from a panic attack.
- OCD or Obsessive –Compulsive Disorder:
This is an uncontrollable condition in which an individual suffers
from constant unnecessary thoughts, commonly termed as obsessions and
compulsions (or rituals). A typical instance of obsessions includes
doubtful temperament, serious concerns regarding contamination and much
more. The various instances of compulsions include counting, checking
and the systematic organization of things.
- PTSD or Post-Traumatic stress disorder:
Post-traumatic disorder is usually the consequence of a horrible or
a terrific experience that might have took place in one's life. Most
often the victims of war, natural disaster or child abduction may
experience this stress disorder. The general symptoms of PTSD include
nightmares, rudeness in temperament, feelings of fear as well as
frustrations.
Such an anxiety disorder is usually categorized into two groups:
Social Phobia: It is also sometimes termed as social
anxiety disorder, in which a person fears to deal with social
situations. Not only this, but he may also feel conscious &
embarrassed to deal with gatherings and also fails to lead a normal
life.
Specific Phobia:
In this type of anxiety disorder, a person is often beset with
unreasonable fears that are quite impossible to control. The extreme
stage of specific phobia is one when a person designates his fear as
illogical one. The typical instances include terror of heights, open
spaces as well as the fear of flying.
An acronym GAD stands for Generalized Anxiety disorder. The general
symptoms include headache, loss of fatigue & nausea. The
exaggerated worries related to daily routine activities & events
disorder are the main reason behind this type of anxiety disorder.
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