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    This document discusses anxiety disorders, including the types, symptoms, causes, prevalence, diagnosis, and treatment. There are several types of anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobias, and generalized anxiety disorder. Symptoms vary but can include panic, fear, problems sleeping, physical symptoms like heart palpitations, and more. The causes of anxiety disorders are unknown but are thought to involve changes in brain circuits and structures related to emotions, as well as genetic and environmental factors like trauma. Anxiety disorders are diagnosed and treated by mental healthcare professionals.

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    This document discusses anxiety disorders, including the types, symptoms, causes, prevalence, diagnosis, and treatment. There are several types of anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobias, and generalized anxiety disorder. Symptoms vary but can include panic, fear, problems sleeping, physical symptoms like heart palpitations, and more. The causes of anxiety disorders are unknown but are thought to involve changes in brain circuits and structures related to emotions, as well as genetic and environmental factors like trauma. Anxiety disorders are diagnosed and treated by mental healthcare professionals.

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    This document discusses anxiety disorders, including the types, symptoms, causes, prevalence, diagnosis, and treatment. There are several types of anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobias, and generalized anxiety disorder. Symptoms vary but can include panic, fear, problems sleeping, physical symptoms like heart palpitations, and more. The causes of anxiety disorders are unknown but are thought to involve changes in brain circuits and structures related to emotions, as well as genetic and environmental factors like trauma. Anxiety disorders are diagnosed and treated by mental healthcare professionals.

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    This document discusses anxiety disorders, including the types, symptoms, causes, prevalence, diagnosis, and treatment. There are several types of anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobias, and generalized anxiety disorder. Symptoms vary but can include panic, fear, problems sleeping, physical symptoms like heart palpitations, and more. The causes of anxiety disorders are unknown but are thought to involve changes in brain circuits and structures related to emotions, as well as genetic and environmental factors like trauma. Anxiety disorders are diagnosed and treated by mental healthcare professionals.

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    Anxiety Disorders

    In this article

    What Are the Types of Anxiety Disorders?

    What Are the Symptoms of an Anxiety Disorder?

    What Causes Anxiety Disorders?

    How Common Are Anxiety Disorders?

    How Are Anxiety Disorders Diagnosed?

    How Are Anxiety Disorders Treated?

    Can Anxiety Disorders Be Prevented?

    There are several types of anxiety disorders including panic disorder,social anxiety
    disorder, specific phobias, and generalized anxiety disorder.
    Anxiety is a normal human emotion that everyone experiences at times. Many people
    feel anxious, or nervous, when faced with a problem at work, before taking a test, or
    making an important decision.Anxiety disorders, however, are different. They can
    cause such distress that it interferes with a person's ability to lead a normal life.
    An anxiety disorder is a serious mental illness. For people with anxiety disorders, worry
    and fear are constant and overwhelming, and can be crippling.
    Phobias -- See What Makes Some People Afraid
    What Are the Types of Anxiety Disorders?
    There are several recognized types of anxiety disorders, including:

    Panic disorder: People with this condition have feelings of terror that strike
    suddenly and repeatedly with no warning. Other symptoms of a panic
    attack include sweating, chest pain, palpitations (unusually strong or irregular
    heartbeats), and a feeling of choking, which may make the person feel like he or
    she is having aheart attack or "going crazy."

    Social anxiety disorder: Also called social phobia, social anxiety


    disorder involves overwhelming worry and self-consciousness about everyday
    social situations. The worry often centers on a fear of being judged by others, or
    behaving in a way that might cause embarrassment or lead to ridicule.

    Specific phobias: A specific phobia is an intense fear of a specific object or


    situation, such as snakes, heights, or flying. The level of fear is usually
    inappropriate to the situation and may cause the person to avoid common,
    everyday situations.

    Generalized anxiety disorder: This disorder involves excessive, unrealistic


    worry and tension, even if there is little or nothing to provoke the anxiety.

    What Are the Symptoms of an Anxiety Disorder?


    Symptoms vary depending on the type of anxiety disorder, but general symptoms
    include:

    Feelings of panic, fear, and uneasiness

    Problems sleeping

    Cold or sweaty hands and/or feet

    Shortness of breath

    Heart palpitations

    An inability to be still and calm

    Dry mouth

    Numbness or tingling in the hands or feet

    Nausea

    Muscle tension

    Dizziness

    What Causes Anxiety Disorders?


    The exact cause of anxiety disorders is unknown; but anxiety disorders -- like other
    forms of mental illness -- are not the result of personalweakness, a character flaw, or
    poor upbringing. As scientists continue their research on mental illness, it is becoming
    clear that many of these disorders are caused by a combination of factors, including
    changes in the brain and environmental stress.
    Like other brain illnesses, anxiety disorders may be caused by problems in the
    functioning of brain circuits that regulate fear and other emotions. Studies have shown
    that severe or long-lasting stress can change the way nerve cells within these circuits
    transmit information from one region of the brain to another. Other studies have
    shown that people with certain anxiety disorders have changes in certain brain
    structures that control memories linked with strong emotions. In addition, studies have
    shown that anxiety disorders run in families, which means that they can at least partly
    be inherited from one or both parents, like the risk for heart disease or cancer.
    Moreover, certain environmental factors -- such as a trauma or significant event -- may
    trigger an anxiety disorder in people who have an inherited susceptibility to
    developing the disorder.

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