Anxiety disorder

Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent type of psychological disorder in the United States. According to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2015), reports show 40 million adults in the United States are diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, which is 18% of the population. Additionally, National surveys show that women are 60% more likely to develop an anxiety disorder than men (National Institute of Mental Health). The American College Health Association reported…

Life with Generalized Anxiety Disorder In the U.S., approximately 3.1% of adults are affected each year by generalized anxiety disorder, causing 1.5-5.4 days of impairment during any given month (Priest, 2015). Anxiety is a commonly experienced emotion in everyday life. Everyone is familiar with the feeling of anxiety from time to time, however, there are individuals who may encounter anxiety at higher levels and rates in which can put them in a debilitating state. Individuals who suffer from…

The topic that I chose was general anxiety disorder, also known as GAD. One of the reasons why I chose this disorder is because my dad has anxiety. Another reason was because I wanted to know more about the disorder, its symptoms, and what people with it have to deal with every day. Learning more about problems that affect people is important to me because understanding what people are dealing with helps with understanding them as a person. With most things in life, there are facts that people…

Running head: ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER 1 Illness Anxiety Disorder (Hypochondriasis) Marissa Barrett PY309_01 Brenau University Running head: ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER 2 Introduction Illness Anxiety Disorder formerly known as Hypochondriasis is used to describe an individual who becomes excessively perturbed at the possibility of either having an…

Life with Generalized Anxiety Disorder In the U.S., approximately 3.1% of adults are affected each year by generalized anxiety disorder, causing 1.5-5.4 days of impairment during any given month (Priest, 2015). Anxiety is a commonly experienced emotion in everyday life. Everyone is familiar with the feeling of anxiety from time to time, however, there are individuals who may encounter anxiety at higher levels and rates in which can put them in a debilitating state. Individuals who suffer from…

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…

Statistics show that people who were married previously are at higher risk for Major Depressive Disorder. Research consistently shows that marriage lowers the risk of depression for both men and women, but divorce increases the risk for depression symptoms, (Iliades, Online) Men and women experience depression differently. Common manifestations of depression for men would be fatigue, irritability, loss of interest in activity, sleep disturbances, and at an additional risk, drug and alcohol abuse…

Anxiety disorders are not uncommon in late life. These disorders are often under diagnosed or misdiagnosed in late life due to their symptomatic overlap with medical conditions, drug effects and the lack of standard diagnostic criteria developed specifically for detecting anxiety disorders in older individuals.( (Rajesh & Deena,2014). Another reason for poor recognition of anxiety disorders in the elderly is that the physical symptoms associated with anxiety especially sleep disturbances,…

such as depression disorders, or anxiety, they are viewed as being normal. Depression disorder is defined by “psychology today” as an illness that involves your body, mood, and thought, and this is not something that just comes by every now and then, depressed people may feel sad, and unwilling to do anything, loss of sleep, tiredness, and many other symptoms . According to webmd, anxiety disorders include, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and some phobia.…

The literature focuses primarily on negative events that cause depression and anxiety and how genetic factors play a role for susceptibility to the illnesses. The two illnesses are usually comorbid in that they are pertained in the same genetic risk factor, (Roy, Neale, Pedersen, Mathe ́, & Kendler, 1995 and Gunthert et al., 2007)…