What are anxiety disorders? Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by feelings of anxiety and fear. Anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. Fear is an emotion that people feel when they believe they are in danger or something is threat to them. There are many different anxiety disorders. Some of the many disorder are Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorders, Phobic Disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and PTSD known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Generalized Anxiety Disorder is a psychological disorder where one’s self has excessive anxiety that have to deal with daily things in life, such as work and relationships. For example, a lady has a Generalized Anxiety Disorder and she struggles with it while at work and at home, while she is at work she gets very agitated with her customers and while she is at home she does not sleep because she is tossing and turning because she is continuously worried. Panic Disorders are anxiety disorders that are characterized by sudden thoughts of fear and panic, also known as panic attacks.
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For example, someone is driving down an icy highway and suddenly they see an 18-wheeler coming straight to their side while the car is sliding on the road and the person is panicking and freaking out, that can be considered a panic disorder because they are panicking and having sudden thoughts of fear. Phobic disorders are sudden thoughts of fear of certain things that people normally try to avoid. For example, a lady has phobic disorder of getting kidnapped while running so she usually tries to avoid going running by herself. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety disorder where people have repeated thoughts, feelings, and ideas about certain things known as obsessions or behaviors that make them feel like they have to keep doing them known as compulsions that usually end up interfering with their daily life. An example of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is someone keeps thinking a certain dishware is dirty after washing it so they continue to wash the dishware fifteen times before they are finally convinced that it clean. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is someone that has very severe anxiety due to a traumatic experience. An example is, a Marine was at tour overseas and was around a bunch of bombings etc. so when he/she was back in the United States and was at a 4th of July festival with fireworks, and during the firework show the Marine was having severe anxiety and flashbacks because of his or her traumatic experience while being overseas. Anxiety Disorders are usually occurring in mostly women. There are many theories of Anxiety Disorder. One of the theories is Learning Perspective meaning that anxiety disorders are caused because of observational learning or fear conditioning. The second theory is Biological Perspective meaning that anxiety is caused because of natural selection, genetics, or because of the brain. However, no one really knows why people experience anxiety disorders. How does Anxiety Disorders relate to me? Well, I know someone and lived with someone for a while that had an anxiety disorder. Before coming to Angelo State I attended another college and had a roommate that was diagnosed with the anxiety disorder PTSD known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. While she was my roommate I noticed that she was not social
For example, someone is driving down an icy highway and suddenly they see an 18-wheeler coming straight to their side while the car is sliding on the road and the person is panicking and freaking out, that can be considered a panic disorder because they are panicking and having sudden thoughts of fear. Phobic disorders are sudden thoughts of fear of certain things that people normally try to avoid. For example, a lady has phobic disorder of getting kidnapped while running so she usually tries to avoid going running by herself. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety disorder where people have repeated thoughts, feelings, and ideas about certain things known as obsessions or behaviors that make them feel like they have to keep doing them known as compulsions that usually end up interfering with their daily life. An example of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is someone keeps thinking a certain dishware is dirty after washing it so they continue to wash the dishware fifteen times before they are finally convinced that it clean. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is someone that has very severe anxiety due to a traumatic experience. An example is, a Marine was at tour overseas and was around a bunch of bombings etc. so when he/she was back in the United States and was at a 4th of July festival with fireworks, and during the firework show the Marine was having severe anxiety and flashbacks because of his or her traumatic experience while being overseas. Anxiety Disorders are usually occurring in mostly women. There are many theories of Anxiety Disorder. One of the theories is Learning Perspective meaning that anxiety disorders are caused because of observational learning or fear conditioning. The second theory is Biological Perspective meaning that anxiety is caused because of natural selection, genetics, or because of the brain. However, no one really knows why people experience anxiety disorders. How does Anxiety Disorders relate to me? Well, I know someone and lived with someone for a while that had an anxiety disorder. Before coming to Angelo State I attended another college and had a roommate that was diagnosed with the anxiety disorder PTSD known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. While she was my roommate I noticed that she was not social