Kinds or Types of Anxiety Disorders

Phobias, Panic Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)


Anxiety produces both physical and psychological responses.

People who suffer from anxiety disorders can be hard to relax and also difficult to feel comfortable in a variety of situations.

Which includes anxiety disorders are as follows:

Anxiety Disorders: Phobias

Phobias
Rejection by the fear of objects or situations encountered. Although actually harmless and phobia sufferers themselves acknowledge that fear is felt that there is no basis.

Simple phobias
Source of fear in the form of animals, heights, enclosed places, blood. Suffering from a simple phobia mostly women and starting from children.

Agoraphobia
Comes from the Greek. Agora means a place of assembly, or market. So agoraphobia is the fear that is centered on public places like shopping fear, fear of crowds, fear of traveling and a lot to ask for help.

• Many women who suffer from agoraphobia starts in adolescence and early adulthood.
• Symptoms: tension, dizziness, compulsions, brooding, depression, fear of becoming insane.
• 90% of the sample: fear of heights, enclosed spaces, elevators.

Social Phobia
Social anxiety resembles. Irrational anxiety because of the other person, for example, fear of public speaking, fear of eating in public places, fear of using public toilets. Usually people with social phobia are rarely asked for help to others. The onset of social phobia usually begins in adolescence, because at that time the awareness of social interaction with others becomes important in his life.


Anxiety Disorders: Panic Disorder

Signs of panic disorder, for example; shortness of breath, heart beat hard, chest pain, feeling suffocated, dizziness, sweating, shaking, fear of the very terror, fear no punishment.

Other signs are depersonalization and derealization. That is the feeling as if it is outside the body, feel the world is not real, fear of losing control, fear of becoming insane, and fears that her right to die.
The intensity of panic disorder can often occur. Once a week or even more often. Connected with more specific situations, such as driving a car in a panic, men 0.7% and 1% of women.

• Four times a panic attack within four weeks.
• One attack followed by fear of attack again for at least 1 month.
• Panic attacks can be followed agoraphobia. 80% of patients with panic disorder also suffer from another anxiety.
• Often there is also a depression.
• Often the cause is physiological, such as heart problems.

Panic sufferers often feel that the disease is severe disease, causing excessive panic.


Anxiety Disorders: Generalized Anxiety Disorders (GAD)

Signs of Generalized Anxiety Disorders (GAD), for example; Chronic persistent anxiety, includes living situation (worrying about an accident, or worry about financial difficulties).

There somatic complaints such as sweating, feeling hot, heart beat hard, uncomfortable stomach, diarrhea, frequent urination, cold, clammy hands, dry mouth, throat congestion, shortness of breath.

Feel no muscle disorders such as feeling tense or pain in certain areas, especially the neck muscles and shoulders, eyelids blinking, vibrating, easily tired, unable to relax, easily startled, agitated, often moan.

Anxiety of impending danger, worry about loss of control, anxiety will have a heart attack, anxiety will die.

Often the patient impatient, irritable, can not sleep, can not concentrate.


Anxiety Disorders: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Obsession is thought that many times intrusive and seemed rational and can not be controlled, thereby disrupting life.

Obsession can take the form of extreme skepticism, suspension and can not take a decision.
Usually the patient can not draw conclusions of a thing.

Compulsion is an impulse that can not be denied, repeat ritualistic behavior many times.
Compulsions often associated with cleanliness and order.

Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder often feel what it does is foreign.

There are 5 types of obsessions:

• Obsessive indecision. Is the thought that a task has been completed is not performed well (75% of patients)
• Obsessive thoughts, thoughts that are not chain ends. Usually focus on upcoming events (34% of patients)
• Obsessive impulses. The urge to perform an act (17% of patients)
• Obsessive fear. Anxiety to lose control and do something embarrassing (26% of patients)
• Shadow obsessive. Shadow constantly about something in the view (7% of patients)

There are 2 types of Compulsive:

• Compulsive impulse, which forced an act. For example look at the door many times (61% of patients)
• Control compulsions. Compulsions drive control (not obey the impulse). Incest drive control by repeatedly counting to a certain count.

According to Rochman and Hodgson there are two kinds, namely cleaning and checking compulsions.


Anxiety Disorders: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Symptoms and diagnosis

• Due to the traumatic event or disaster whose level is very bad, for example rape, war, natural disasters, serious threat to your loved ones, seeing others hurt or killed.
• Will result can not concentrate, remember, can not be relaxed, impulsive, easily startled, sleep disorders, anxiety, depression, numbness, fun things that are not interesting anymore, frequent nightmares, sleep disorders.
• The trauma of the war, physical attacks or persecution lasted longer than trauma after natural disasters.
• Symptoms worsen if faced with a similar situation.
• Can occur in children and adults.
• Symptoms in children: a dream about monsters or changes in behavior, eg cheerful child suddenly become withdrawn.
• History of psychopathology in the family plays a role.