What Is Anxiety Disorder?

Anxiety is a reasonable psychological condition. Everyone has ever anxious whether it be male or female, children or adults, old or young; whether it's anxious about their self, their family or their friends. Anxiety is commonly not a serious problem.
However, what if you feel anxious prolonged without stopping, feeling anxious without cause, anxiety that is too over and prevent you to live normally? If you experience this condition, you may suffer from anxiety disorder.

What is an anxiety disorder?

Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by unnatural anxiety and fear.
If someone feels anxious because there is pressure or something threatening of course it is a natural thing. However, anxiety disorders are not like that. In anxiety disorders, anxiety experienced by a person is not proportional to the actual pressure experienced in life.

Someone may be nervous or anxious at first job interviews or public speaking where anxiety like this is a natural thing. But what if you feel anxious until you do not dare to leave the house, or you experience anxiety continuously? Of course things like this can not be said as a natural thing.

Generally, people with anxiety disorders avoid the things that make them anxious. This avoidance behavior usually can only ease anxiety for a while because anxiety disorder will persist in the sufferer. For this anxiety disorder needs to be controlled or eliminated.

Anxiety disorders are divided into several types, each type of anxiety disorder has distinct signs, symptoms and characteristics and the treatment may be different for each anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders have various symptoms. Each patient has a different level of symptoms. To find out what kinds of anxiety disorders, you can read our article about "Types of Anxiety Disorders"


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