Recognizing the Types of Anxiety Disorder and Anxiety Attacks

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  • Author Danish Haddad
  • Published December 17, 2010
  • Word count 597

There are 6 kind of anxiety disorder with each one of them has its own typical characteristics. The 6 types are : panic disorder, phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD.

Panic disorder has characteristics of repeated and unexpected panic attacks. The sufferers often have fears when the next panic attack will likely to happen. Most of the time panic disorder sufferer will also likely to have agoraphobia conditions. They will have fear being in an enclosed place or any place where help or assistance are difficult to get. in case of another attack occur. Agoraphobia sufferers have extreme fear of being in aeroplane, escalator or crowded place such as shopping center.

Phobia is an exaggerated and irrational fear over simple things that basically pose no danger. Usual phobias are fear of spider, lizard, dark and height. In order to escape anxiety, people with phobia symptoms will always avoid places or things that they are afraid of. Unfortunately, avoidance will only overwhelm their fear and symptoms.

Post-traumatic stress disorder often occurs to a person after a life threatening or traumatic incident. Post- traumatic stress disorder sufferers often show conditions such as hyper- alert, avoiding situations or places that remind them about the event, nightmares, insomnia, isolation and easily startled.

Social anxiety disorder or social phobia is a condition that makes the sufferer to fear of being noticed negatively by other people or afraid of getting insulted in public by other people. SAD are often mistaken as normal extreme shyness. Social anxiety disorder sufferers will normally separate themselves from other people. They will also isolate themselves from events where crowd gathers. Of all the symptoms of social anxiety disorder, stage fright is the most common one.

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) symptoms involves chronic fear or worries over almost everything without even knowing why. They are in high anxiety state about day to day activities and always have fear that bad things will happen. The most common symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder are restlessness, insomnia, fatigue and stomach upset.

Obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD produced symptoms such as unwanted rituals or intrusive thoughts which appear to be impossible to control. OCD sufferers have certain obsessions such as worries that they might kill someone they love or that they have forgotten to switch off the water tap. Usually this obsessions will be accompanied by compulsion. The most well known compulsion is washing of hands repeatedly or turning off the water tap very tightly to make sure that it is off.

You can know whether you have anxiety disorder by checking yourself for these symptoms and signals in you;

Do you have anxiety attacks condition?

Do you often feeling worried and tense?

When in confine place, do you feel like you are in danger?

Are you avoiding strangers or relatives and feeling uncomfortable being around them?

If something are not done according to plan, do you feel that something bad will happen?

Are your relationship, work and responsibilities affected by constant fear and anxiousness?

Do you have intrusive and unwanted thoughts that you cannot shake off?

If you have any of the above mentioned symptoms, then it is possible that you could be having anxiety disorder symptoms. Fortunately there is a single proven method to eliminate all those symptoms quick and permanent.

The best part about this treatment method is that it requires no medications or drugs. Because in reality medications and drugs for anxiety disorder doesn't exist. They only makes you dizzy and weak but the vicious cycle of anxiety disorder will still be there.

The author is an ex OCD sufferer who has since recovered from all symptoms of OCD. He concluded that Anxiety Disorder related symptoms can never be treated with medications or drugs. Anxiety Disorder are behavioral conditions and not any kind of illness. All the symptoms and sensations will go away quickly once you learn how to re-program the "Amygdala". Visit http://www.stopocd.org now to learn more.

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