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Mental Illness : Anxiety

The term "anxiety disorder" refers to specific psychiatric disorders that involve extreme fear or worry, and includes generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder and panic attacks, agoraphobia, social anxiety disorder, selective mutism, separation anxiety, and specific phobias. Anxiety disorders differ from normal feelings of nervousness or anxiousness and involve excessive fear or anxiety. Anxiety disorders are the most common of mental disorders and affect more than 25 million Americans. But anxiety disorders are treatable and a number of effective treatments are available. Treatment helps most people lead normal productive lives. Anxiety disorders often occur along with other mental disorders, in particular depression , which may occur in as many as 60% of people with anxiety disorders. The fact that there is considerable overlap between symptoms of anxiety and depression, and that the same environmental triggers can provoke symptoms in either condition, may help to explain this high rate of comorbidity.

You are not alone. Please, seek help and get better.
"The staring eyes, you can feel their judgment.
The whispers,the scream, THE SCREAMS in your head. The feeling that something is eating you up, strangling you from inside. Terror in your eyes, heavy breathing. You feel like choking. Your hearts beats so fast that you can feel it, you can hear it. You are afraid, terrified. You can't speak. You can't move. You don't know what to do. And it's like this everyday. Not all the time, not always this bad but you know it's not going away. You can't socialize, you don't want to go outside. You never feel safe."

Anxiety disorders are real, serious medical conditions - just as real and serious as physical disorders such as heart disease or diabetes. Anxiety disorders are the most common and pervasive mental disorders in the United States.

www.mentalhealthamerica.net/ab…
www.psychiatry.org/patients-fa…

Description

Mental Illness : Anxiety

The term "anxiety disorder" refers to specific psychiatric disorders that involve extreme fear or worry, and includes generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder and panic attacks, agoraphobia, social anxiety disorder, selective mutism, separation anxiety, and specific phobias. Anxiety disorders differ from normal feelings of nervousness or anxiousness and involve excessive fear or anxiety. Anxiety disorders are the most common of mental disorders and affect more than 25 million Americans. But anxiety disorders are treatable and a number of effective treatments are available. Treatment helps most people lead normal productive lives. Anxiety disorders often occur along with other mental disorders, in particular depression , which may occur in as many as 60% of people with anxiety disorders. The fact that there is considerable overlap between symptoms of anxiety and depression, and that the same environmental triggers can provoke symptoms in either condition, may help to explain this high rate of comorbidity.

You are not alone. Please, seek help and get better.
"The staring eyes, you can feel their judgment.
The whispers,the scream, THE SCREAMS in your head. The feeling that something is eating you up, strangling you from inside. Terror in your eyes, heavy breathing. You feel like choking. Your hearts beats so fast that you can feel it, you can hear it. You are afraid, terrified. You can't speak. You can't move. You don't know what to do. And it's like this everyday. Not all the time, not always this bad but you know it's not going away. You can't socialize, you don't want to go outside. You never feel safe."

Anxiety disorders are real, serious medical conditions - just as real and serious as physical disorders such as heart disease or diabetes. Anxiety disorders are the most common and pervasive mental disorders in the United States.

www.mentalhealthamerica.net/ab…
www.psychiatry.org/patients-fa…