Find out if you have any anxiety disorder ?

Anxiety and Fear

Find out if you have any anxiety disorder ?

Anxiety and fear both are emotions that everyone feel or experience in their daily lives. Both anxiety and fear plays a significant role in anxiety disorders. So its important yo understand some of the similarities and differences between these two emotions.

Anxiety 

Is defined as feeling of comprehension, excessive worry, nervousness, and its a kind of threat for future of person well being.

Fear

Is an emotional response to real or perceived threat.

Obviously, these two stats overlap, but they also differ, with fear more often associated with surges of automatic arousal necessary for fight and flight, thoughts of immediate danger, and escape behaviour, and anxiety more often associated with muscle tension and vigilance in preparation for future danger and cautions or avoidant behaviours.

Anxiety disorder differ from developmentally normative fear and anxiety by being excessive or persisting beyond developmentally appropriate periods. Individual with anxiety disorders typically overestimate the danger in situation they fear or avoid. Many anxiety disorders develop in childhood and tend to persist if not treated.

most occur more frequently in females than in males.

There are many different anxiety disorders.

• Separation anxiety disorder
• Selective mutism
• Specific phobia
• Social anxiety disorder
• Panic disorder
• Agoraphobia  ( fear of open places )
• Generalised anxiety disorder

The individual in separation anxiety disorder is fearful or anxious about the separation from attachment figures.

Selective mutism is characterised by a constant failure to speak in social situations in which there is an expectation to speak.

Individual with specific phobia are fearful or anxious about or avoidant of circumscribed objects or situations.

In social anxiety disorder the individual is fearful or anxious about or avoidant of social interactions and situations that involve the possibility of being scrutinised.

In panic disorder, the individual experience recurrent unexpected panic attacks and is persistently concerned or worried about having more panic attacks or change his or her behaviour in maladaptive ways because of panic attacks.

Individual with agoraphobia are fearful and anxious about two or more of the following situations ; using public transportation ; being in open spaces; being in enclosed places; standing in line or being in a crowd; or being outside of the home alone in other situation.

The key features of generalised anxiety disorder are persistent and excessive anxiety and worry about various domains, including work and school performance, that the individual finds difficult to control.