Anxiety Disorder

What is Anxiety Disorder?

Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress characterized by thoughts of apprehension and autonomic
symptoms such as sweating, palpitation, tremor and butterflies in the stomach.

This is useful for a person in day to day life in most of the cases, for example…..

It helps...

• A student to study harder for an exam, 
• An employee to deal with a tensed situation in the office, 
• A person to keep focused on an important speech….. 
• But when this Anxiety becomes excessive and disabling, thus affecting day to day functions........, 
• it becomes an Anxiety disorder.

Five major types of Anxiety Disorders:

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Panic Disorder
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Specific Phobic Disorders (Including Social Phobia)

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Generalized Anxiety Disorder, is characterized by 

• Chronic free floating anxiety, 
• Increased worry and tension, even when there is very little or even nothing to provoke it. 
• General worries are accompanied by fatigue, headache, muscle tension, muscle aches, difficulty in 
• swallowing, trembling, irritability, sweating, etc