What is Anxiety Disorder

Feeling anxious is a natural human response to any danger. Anxiety often works as a helpful automatic alarm which can alert you from any alarming situation or stressful event or threatening situation.

Basically, anxiety is such a human emotion which is normally experienced by everyone in his/her life. For example: young people often become anxious, or nervous before taking their exam or a adult people may suffer from anxiety at their professional life or before making an important decision.

Some of the common symptoms of anxiety are:

• Fearful feeling
• Agitation
• Fast heart beat rate
• Palpitations
• Sickness feeling
• Sweating and dry mouth,
• Chest pain and headaches etc.

However, if anyone constantly experiences the anxiety without any reason or become continuously stressed even if the stress is not serious enough then these symptoms are indicating that the normal anxiety has transformed into anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorder is a severe mental disorder. It often causes many mental sufferings which can lead mental and physical disorder and interrupts a person's ability to lead a normal lifestyle. Constant and extreme feeling of anxiety and fearful thinking are two common symptoms of anxiety disorder.

Some other signs of anxiety disorder are, poor concentration, poor performance of study, irritation, sadness, anger, negative image of life, sense of guilt, dizziness etc. About 1 person out of 20 persons suffers from anxiety disorder. People develop anxiety disorder due to having some unusual circumstances or stressful occurrence in life. These stressful events can be carried by using environmental factors, social and genetic factors.

Anxiety disorder has several categories and each category has different symptoms, different effects or different outcomes. In addition, treatment procedures of the anxiety disorder could vary according to the types or classifications. The classifications of anxiety disorder are:

1. Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
2. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
3. Panic Disorder
4. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
5. Social Phobia or Social Anxiety Disorder
6. Specific Phobia
7. Agoraphobia

Treatment procedures of anxiety disorder are quite similar to the treatment procedures of depressive illness. It can be treated medically with mental health professionals, counseling and behavioral therapy or even with self help tactics or self treatment. Often treatment can bring very quick and positive result but of course according to the type of anxiety disorder and its severity.

However the treatment and diagnosis of anxiety disorder will depend on the current physical and psychological condition of the individual. Because some patient with anxiety disorder require hospitalization or professional treatment even some people could be cured by self help or by taking general medicine.