What are anxiety disorders?

Jun 13, 2021

Anxiety disorders are mental illnesses that cause consistent overwhelming anxiety and fear in the sufferer. Excessive anxiety may make a person avoid school, work, family, friends, get-togethers, and other social situations. Anxiety disorder sufferers avoid people and situations as they may trigger symptoms. In some cases, people and situations may cause the symptoms to worsen.

In this article, we cover the following subjects

Symptoms of anxiety disorders
What are anxiety disorders
Types of anxiety

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While there are people and situations that cause anxiety disorders, there are other reasons you may develop an issue. Anxiety can be caused by an underlying health issue. The constant thinking and worrying about an ailment can lead you to anxiety as you overanalyze every aspect of your health. Anxiety symptoms are the first indicators of a medical illness. You doctor may suspect your anxiety has a medical cause. They may order tests to find the medical problem and then treat it.

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Types of anxiety disorders

There are multiple types of anxiety disorders. Each has its own symptoms and signs. These anxiety disorders include:

Generalized anxiety disorder

Feeling excessive, unrealistic worry, and tension with little or no reason to warrant it.

Panic disorder

Feeling sudden, intense fear which brings on a panic attack. The panic attack may cause you to sweat, have chest pain, and a pounding heartbeat. Panic disorder sufferers feel like they are choking and cannot swallow or that they are having a heart attack.

Social anxiety disorder

Known as social phobia, social anxiety disorder occurs when a person feels overwhelming worry and self-consciousness about routine social situations. Sufferers obsessively worry about the judgment of others in everyday social situations and being embarrassed or ridiculed by other people.

Specific phobias

Sufferers feel an intense fear of an object or situation. Heights or flying are two examples of specific phobias. The fear of these objects or situations goes farther than what is appropriate. The fear may cause a person to avoid ordinary situations to prevent the phobias.

Agoraphobia

Agoraphobia is a strong fear of being in a place in which it seems hard to leave or get help in an emergency situation. A person may feel panic or anxious when sitting on an airplane, on public transportation, or standing in a crowd or line.

Separation anxiety

This occurs when a loved one leaves. It is often believed separation anxiety is most common in children, but people of all ages experience it. Sufferers feel anxious or fearful when a friend, family member, or loved one leaves their sight. Sufferers fear that something bad will occur to their loved one when they are away.

Selective mutism

Children are the main sufferers of selective mutism. Kids may speak normally at home or with family and friends, but in social situations such as school, they do not talk.

Medication-induced anxiety disorder

Anxiety disorders can be triggered by using medications, drugs, or going through withdrawal.

Symptoms of anxiety disorders

Anxiety disorders’ main symptoms are worry and fear. You may find it difficult to sleep, breath, concentrate, and sit still when suffering from an anxiety disorder. The symptoms depend on the anxiety disorder you suffer from. The most common symptoms are:

Panic, uneasiness, and fear
Feeling panic, doom, or danger is occurring or about to occur
Sleep problems such as insomnia
Being unable to stay calm or still
Cold, sweaty, numb, and/or tingling hands and/or feet
A shortness of breath and/or difficulty breathing
Breathing quickly and/or faster than normal
Hyperventilation
Heart palpitations
Dry mouth
Nausea
Tight muscles
Dizziness
Continuing to think about a problem and being unable to stop
Cannot concentrate on tasks
Obsessively avoid objects or places due to fear

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