💭Anxiety disorders involve intense and disproportionate worry or fear.
🤔Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is characterized by chronic worry.
😱Phobias are intense and irrational fears of specific objects or situations.
😰Panic disorder involves recurring and unexpected panic attacks.
😥PTSD is anxiety that arises after experiencing traumatic events.
What are the symptoms of anxiety disorders?
—Symptoms of anxiety disorders include intense worry, physical symptoms like insomnia and stomach pains, and interference with social functioning.
How common are anxiety disorders?
—Anxiety disorders affect about 19% of the population each year, making them the most common psychological disorders.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
—GAD involves chronic and excessive worry that is out of proportion to the actual level of threat.
What are phobias?
—Phobias are intense and irrational fears of specific objects or situations.
What is Panic Disorder?
—Panic disorder involves repeated and unexpected episodes of intense fear, known as panic attacks.
00:05Anxiety disorders involve intense worry or fear that is out of proportion to the actual level of threat.
00:33Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is characterized by chronic worry or recurring feelings that something bad is about to happen.
01:16Phobias are intense and excessive fears of specific objects or situations.
02:03Panic disorder involves repeated and unexpected episodes of intense fear called panic attacks.
02:43PTSD is anxiety that arises after witnessing or experiencing traumatic events.
