Living With Anxiety Disorders Book Review

Mental health disorders affect many of us in this day and time. An anxiety disorder is almost like an epidemic among many of us in today’s society. It is an illness several of us are very well familiar with. Living with anxiety can be not only scary but overwhelmingly frustrating as well. “Living with Anxiety Disorders” written by Carol Hand, published in 2014, by ABDO Publishing Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this book the authors objective is to educate what anxiety is along with certain types of this horrifying disorder. I find this book to be geared towards mainly adolescence who are struggling and living day to day with an anxiety disorder. The author of this piece is a licensed psychologist who specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy for children and teenagers with anxiety disorders. I find this material to be very informative because she includes different types of anxiety disorders such as, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder. The author also expresses the consequences of having one of these disabling disorders as well as …show more content…
One being Generalized Anxiety Disorder or GAD, expressed as “worry excessively about nearly everything”. For me, not so much as a surprising fact about GAD is that two- thirds of teens with this disability are female. GAD is socialized with worrying about areas of life such as, friends, classmates, school, health, and individual performance. Separation Disorder which is the “fear of being separated from parents or other caregivers”. This disorder is very common in babies up to the age of five years old. Social Anxiety Disorder known to be associated with a fear of social or situation someone would be evaluated for with their performance. Panic Disorder or what many of also known as a Panic Attack “is a sudden, spontaneous wave of intense fear and impending