What is Anxiety?
Everyday ups and downs are just more challenging when you have an anxiety disorder and it can cause problems with your work and home life as well as your social life. Anxiety disorders cause excessive stress and worry not only to the person themselves but also to the people around them. Living with someone who has an anxiety disorder is a challenge in itself.
Anxiety disorders are more common than you might think – they affect about 40 million American adults age 18 years and older per year. Unlike the relatively mild and brief anxiety caused by a stressful event (such as speaking in public or taking a test), anxiety disorders cause excessive fearfulness and uncertainty, they last at least 6 months and can get worse if they are not treated.
Anxiety disorders commonly occur along with other mental or physical illnesses, including alcohol or substance abuse, which may hide anxiety symptoms or make them worse. In some cases, these other illnesses need to be treated before a person will respond to treatment for the anxiety disorder.
Treatment is available to help people overcome their problems with anxiety. Effective therapies for anxiety disorders are available and can help most people with anxiety disorders lead productive, fulfilling lives. If you think you have an anxiety disorder, you can find out by taking our anxiety questionnaire.
- panic disorder
- post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- social phobia (or social anxiety disorder)
- specific phobias
- generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
Each anxiety disorder has different features, but all the symptoms cluster around excessive, irrational fear and dread that something bad will happen. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is also classified as a type of anxiety disorder but it is discussed elsewhere on our website.
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