Stress, worry, tension, and anxiety are all parts of everyone’s life. But merely experiencing any of these at a normal doesn’t suggest anything out of ordinary. Anxiety problems only turn into something sinister once these cause the development of disorders that inhibit one’s ability to function normally.
There are plenty of of anxiety problems – all of them severe enough to cause significant changes in the lives of people affected by them, making them feeling out of control, extremely uncomfortable, and utterly helpless. In general at least 6 anxiety conditions are considered major disorders.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder or GAD
Everyone worries to some degree, but the degree at which people with generalized Anxiety Disorder worry are everything but normal. Their worries are out of proportion, excessively irrational, and life-inhibiting, to say the least.
Physiological symptoms such as muscle tension, trembling and shaking, sweating and hot flashes to name a few often accompany worrying. People with generalized anxiety disorder also often suffer from physical symptoms like light headedness, fatigue, frequent urination, nausea, sleep disturbances, diminished ability to focus or stay focused, and irritability.
Panic Disorder and Panic Attacks
Panic attacks are the hallmarks of an anxiety disorder called panic disorder and within this symptom alone are dozens of different psychological and physical symptoms, as well as emotional sensations. Not all of the symptoms occur simultaneously though. Usually, only four is necessary to qualify the condition as panic attack.
Patients of panic disorder or panic attack commonly report of the following symptoms: chest discomfort, racing or poundingheart, shaking or trembling, shortness of breath, nausea, tingling sensations, weakness or fatigue, depersonalization, derealization, and fear losing control, and of going crazy.
Social Phobia or Social Anxiety
Social anxiety, otherwise called as social phobia, is a form of anxiety disorder that makes people suffering from it specifically fearful of social situations wherein there are possibilities of being scrutinized by others. Often, people with social phobia worry or fear that they would not measure up to other people’s judgment or expectations.
Phobias
Phobia is characterized by one’s intense apprehension or fear of certain objects or specific situations. Most patients, especially adults, are very aware that their fears are irrational. Nevertheless, their fears are often so overwhelming that when faced with their objects of fear, they forget all reason. Instead, these fears cause them severe anxiety or situationally predisposed panic attacks.
People with phobia often end up responding in one of two ways – first, avoid the object of fear or situation, and second, deal with them by enduring with extreme distress and anxiety. Neither response is healthy.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
OCD is a puzzling anxiety disorder that is characterized by obsessive thoughts or recurrent thoughts called obsessions and repetitive, ritualized behaviors or compulsions that a person is forced to perform. The majority of cases of OCD are marked by the occurrence of both components. However, in less than 20% of all patients, OCD develops into a condition that involves only obsessions OR compulsions.
Ritualized behaviors are often performed to alleviate anxiety although in a not a few cases, these engender worse anxiety, especially in cases when the obsessions have already become demanding.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-Traumatic Disorder or PTSD is an anxiety problems that develops from experiencing or witnessing an intensely traumatic, tragic or terrifying event. Unless treated, patients of PTSD will suffer from a lifetime of dreadful memories and emotional numbness towards people who used to be close to them.
Anxiety problems come in many different forms, but all have symptoms that often inhibit people suffering from them from living normal lives. To know more about the individual disorders and the treatments available for them, visit my website.
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