The most common mental illness in the United States are anxiety disorders. Anxiety Disorders is a health disorder characterized by feelings of worry, anxiety, or fear that are strong enough to interfere with one’s daily activities. This disorder has affected forty million adults in the U.S. age eighteen and older. Sadly, people who are affected with an anxiety disorder suffer with symptoms like jumpiness, trembling, hyperactivity, dizziness, racing heart, apprehensive expectations and thoughts (King, 2013, 506)
There are different types of anxiety disorders like generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, specific phobia, and social anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders are frequently associated with traumatic life events. Fortunately, anxiety …show more content…
People with this type of disorder are nervous most of the time and worry all the time even when they shouldn’t be worried and they also expect the worst to happen for no apparent reason. Worrying that much can lead to suffering from fatigue, muscle tension, stomach problems, and difficulty sleeping. Sleep disturbance is the most common problem for people with generalized anxiety disorder. GAD is the most common anxiety disorder among older adults. GAD affects 6.8 million adults and women are twice as likely to be affected as men. People who have this disorder don’t know how to stop the worrying and feel like it is beyond their control. Symptoms of GAD include: restlessness, feeling locked up, fatigued, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance. There are different kinds of treatments for this disorder, there are medication, self care, therapies and specialists that can help. Medication that usually helps are Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, Anxiolytic and Antidepressant. There are other treatments like cognitive-behavioral therapy which is effective for many people, helping them to identify, understand and modify faculty thinking and this helps learning to control their worry. The easiest treatment is …show more content…
Nineteen million people have at least one specific phobia, that is 8.7 percent of Americans. Women are twice as likely to be affected than men, this typically starts in childhood at the age of 7. Usually you develop a phobia in an event that happened in the person’s childhood. Specific phobia means that you can fear anything like dogs, water, bees, death and so much more. People with a phobia start to overthink and then get strong irrational fear of anything that has to do with that phobia, even if it doesn’t make sense. Having a phobia can make that individual slow or disrupt daily routines, lowers self esteem and it even makes the individual restrain friendships or relationships so they don’t feel uncomfortable at all. Specific phobia symptoms include: feeling of danger or of choking, need of escape, sweating, trembling, shortness of breath,chest pain, discomfort, and fear of dying, losing control or doing crazy. Treatments for this disorder include exposure therapy, relaxation, cognitive therapy and medication depending on the situation (Caballo, 1998,
There are different types of anxiety disorders like generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, specific phobia, and social anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders are frequently associated with traumatic life events. Fortunately, anxiety …show more content…
People with this type of disorder are nervous most of the time and worry all the time even when they shouldn’t be worried and they also expect the worst to happen for no apparent reason. Worrying that much can lead to suffering from fatigue, muscle tension, stomach problems, and difficulty sleeping. Sleep disturbance is the most common problem for people with generalized anxiety disorder. GAD is the most common anxiety disorder among older adults. GAD affects 6.8 million adults and women are twice as likely to be affected as men. People who have this disorder don’t know how to stop the worrying and feel like it is beyond their control. Symptoms of GAD include: restlessness, feeling locked up, fatigued, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance. There are different kinds of treatments for this disorder, there are medication, self care, therapies and specialists that can help. Medication that usually helps are Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, Anxiolytic and Antidepressant. There are other treatments like cognitive-behavioral therapy which is effective for many people, helping them to identify, understand and modify faculty thinking and this helps learning to control their worry. The easiest treatment is …show more content…
Nineteen million people have at least one specific phobia, that is 8.7 percent of Americans. Women are twice as likely to be affected than men, this typically starts in childhood at the age of 7. Usually you develop a phobia in an event that happened in the person’s childhood. Specific phobia means that you can fear anything like dogs, water, bees, death and so much more. People with a phobia start to overthink and then get strong irrational fear of anything that has to do with that phobia, even if it doesn’t make sense. Having a phobia can make that individual slow or disrupt daily routines, lowers self esteem and it even makes the individual restrain friendships or relationships so they don’t feel uncomfortable at all. Specific phobia symptoms include: feeling of danger or of choking, need of escape, sweating, trembling, shortness of breath,chest pain, discomfort, and fear of dying, losing control or doing crazy. Treatments for this disorder include exposure therapy, relaxation, cognitive therapy and medication depending on the situation (Caballo, 1998,