Types of anxiety

     Anxiety disorders are characterized by extreme nervousness and feelings of fear. Anxiety disorders are further grouped into these types:

  •  Generalized anxiety disorder, which has symptoms that include 6 or more months of exaggerated fears, worry, and general emotional tension.
  • Obsessive compulsive disorder, which is type of anxiety where a person has repetitive images, ideas, and bodily feelings (called obsessions) that drive the person to display behaviors and actions in response (these are the compulsions).
  • Panic disorder, which is a type of anxiety in which intense and often sudden anxiety results in a person being overwhelmed by these feelings and unable to function normally.
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder, which is anxiety that follows a trauma or major stressor, when a person often has repeated thoughts of an event or subsequent disturbing anxiety that can be triggered by something that reminds the person of the originating event.
  • Social anxiety, which involves an anxiety with a main feature in which a person’s worry, often regarding other people’s judgment or evaluation, leaves him or her unable to function in a social situation.  

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