What Is Anxiety?
Your Guide to Anxiety Information and Understanding Anxiety.
There are many different categories of anxiety disorders the following are the most common. Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a chronic disorder characterized by excessive, long-lasting anxiety and worry about nonspecific life events, objects, and situations. Panic disorder is characterized by unexpected and repeated episodes of intense fear accompanied by physical symptoms. A phobia is the unrelenting fear of a situation, activity, or thing that causes one to want to avoid it at all costs. In social anxiety disorder, everyday interactions cause extreme fear and self-consciousness. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is characterized by recurrent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and/or repetitive behaviors (compulsions). Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can develop after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened.
. For more information about anxiety, check out NIH.gov, MedicineNet.com, and MayoClinic.com.




