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| | Anxiety - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Obsessive compulsive disorder is a type of anxiety disorder characterized by obsessions and/or compulsions. | | | A chronically recurring case of anxiety that has a serious effect on a person's life may be clinically diagnosed as an anxiety disorder. | | | The most common are generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). |
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| | Anxiety- Health Encyclopedia and Reference |
| | Anxiety disorders serious medical illnesses that involve intense feelings of fear, anxiety, worry or apprehension often associated with specific situations, events or objects. | | | Types of anxiety orders include panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, social phobia or social anxiety disorder, specific phobias (such as fears of enclosed or open spaces) and generalized anxiety disorder. | | | The most common anxiety disorders are phobias, generalized anxiety, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. |
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| | Anxiety and Depression Solutions - Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, Social Anxiety, Panic Attacks - Find Treatment, Causes and Symptoms |
| | Anxiety, Depression, social anxiety and related disorders are serious conditions that require the assistance of a doctor, psychologist, psychiatrist or other qualified practitioner. | | | There are six types of anxiety disorders which generally have similar symptoms and include: panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, Social anxiety disorder (social phobia), Simple Phobias, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. | | | I have experienced many forms of anxiety and depression throughout my life and have tried pretty much everything including prescription drugs, herbal alternatives, dietary supplements, visualization therapy and cognitive behavior therapy. |
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Generalized anxiety disorder |
| | Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by a pattern of frequent, persistent worry and anxiety, about several different events or activities. | | | Call your health-care provider if you are experiencing the signs and symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder, especially if this has been going on for a period of 6 months or longer, or it interferes with your daily functioning. | | | Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a common condition. |
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| | All About Anxiety |
| | Anxiety disorders are conditions that involve unrealistic fear and worry. | | | Anxiety disorders can cause teens to suffer from intense, long-lasting fear or worry, in addition to other symptoms. | | | Social anxiety disorder is an intense fear of social situations. |
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| | Your Guide to Anxiety Overview |
| | Learn more about medications for anxiety disorders.Find out how psychotherapy works. | | | Generalized anxiety disorder: This disorder involves excessive, unrealistic worry and tension, even if there is little or nothing to provoke the anxiety. | | | The exact cause of anxiety disorders is unknown; but anxiety disorders-- like other forms of mental illness-- are not the result of personal weakness, a character flaw or poor upbringing. |
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| | Panic Attacks and Anxiety Solution |
| | Our experience in the anxiety disorder field is second to none and our success rate is unquestionable. | | | Anxiety Disorder and Panic Attacks aren't mental or physical illnesses! | | | The Amygdala is confirmed by the National Institute of mental Health (the Institute responsible for the majority of the world's anxiety disorders research)as THE cause of panic attacks and anxiety disorders. |
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| | Dorlands Medical Dictionary |
| | Included are panic disorder with and without agoraphobia, agoraphobia without history of panic disorder, specific phobia, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, acute stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and substance-induced anxiety disorder. | | | disorder of written expression, [DSM-IV] a learning disorder (q.v.) in which the affected skill is written communication, characterized by errors in spelling, grammar, or punctuation, by poor paragraph organization, or by poor story composition or thematic development. | | | formal thought disorder, disturbance in the form, rather than the content, of thought; disruption in the flow of ideas or speech; inability to follow the normal semantic or syntactic rules in someone with adequate intelligence and education and the cultural background to do so. |
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| | AboutOurKids.org About Anxiety Disorders |
| | Anxiety Disorders tend to run in families, but the complex relationship between genes, biological systems, and anxiety is not well understood. | | | An Anxiety Disorder can occur seemingly without warning or be present for a long time without anyone realizing what it is. The earlier the onset, the more likely that a child will suffer with multiple anxiety disorders and other complex comorbid disorders such as depression, before reaching adolescence. | | | Parents and children can be optimistic since Anxiety Disorders are among the most readily and effectively treated mental disorders with cognitive behavioral therapy and/or medication. |
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| | anxiety - Columbia Encyclopedia article about anxiety |
| | Anxiety disorders include observable, overt anxiety, as well as phobias and other conditions where a defense mechanism defense mechanism, in psychoanalysis, any of a variety of unconscious personality reactions which the ego uses to protect the conscious mind from threatening feelings and perceptions. | | | Panic disorder involves sudden anxiety attacks which are manifested in heart palpitations, shortness of breath, or fainting. | | | Freud postulated that anxiety was a result of repressed, pent-up sexual energy, but later came to view it as a danger signal alerting the ego to excessive stimulation and causing repression. |
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| | Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General - Chapter 4 |
| | They encompass a group of conditions that share extreme or pathological anxiety as the principal disturbance of mood or emotional tone. | | | The anxiety disorders are the most common, or frequently occurring, mental disorders. | | | Anxiety, which may be understood as the pathological counterpart of normal fear, is manifest by disturbances of mood, as well as of thinking, behavior, and physiological activity. |
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| | Anxiety and Panic: Gaining Control Over How You're Feeling -- familydoctor.org |
| | Generalized anxiety disorder is ongoing worry or fear that isn't related to a particular event or situation, or is out of proportion to what you would expect--for instance, constantly worrying about a child who is perfectly healthy. | | | Symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder include muscle tension, trembling, shortness of breath, fast heartbeat, dry mouth, dizziness, nausea, irritability, loss of sleep and not being able to concentrate. | | | Your doctor may give you medicine to help reduce your anxiety while you learn new ways to respond to the things that make you anxious. |
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| | Anxiety |
| | Anxiety which persists over an extended period of time with frequent periods of high intensity is indicative of an anxiety disorder. | | | Anxiety, on the other hand, is more of a subjective state of uneasiness and apprehension in response to a vague and sometimes unrecognized danger. | | | Often, anxiety tends to be out of proportion and unrealistic. |
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| | Anxiety Disorders |
| | When anxiety interferes with your daily life or when it becomes incapacitating fear, it becomes an illness called an anxiety disorder. | | | The causes of anxiety disorder are not clear. | | | But anxiety ceases to be positive when it is painful or prolonged, or when the response is out of proportion to the cause. |
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| | Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Anxiety |
| | It is important to distinguish between anxiety as a feeling or experience, and an anxiety disorder as a psychiatric diagnosis. | | | Moreover, a large portion of human anxiety is produced by anticipation of future events. | | | Sometimes anxiety being experienced in the present may stem from an event or person that produced pain and fear in the past, but the anxious individual is not consciously aware of the original source of the feeling. |
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| | Anxiety |
| | Anxiety Disorder Due to A General Medical Condition | | | Anxiety disorder symptoms precede the onset of substance abuse. | | | The diagnosis of a Substance-Induced Anxiety Disorder should be made only when the anxiety symptoms considerably exceed what you would expect from an ordinary case of Intoxication or Withdrawal from that specific substance. |
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| | Clarocet - Anxiety, Depression, Panic Attacks, Social Anxiety Disorder, Mood Swings - Treatment Options, Causes, Symptoms |
| | People with symptoms of anxiety or depression often experience a broad range of emotional stress responses, including feelings of helplessness or meaninglessness, a loss of pleasure, mood swings, shyness or anger. | | | The emotional health resources available on this website are intended to provide you with general information about anxiety, social anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, panic attacks, depression, stress, ADHD, sleeplessness, and related emotional stress responses, and they are not meant to be used as a substitute for professional medical advice. | | | Learn how, with proper coping techniques, you can begin to reduce the negative impact that anxiety or depression have in your own life. |
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| | Mood and Anxiety |
| | People with anxiety disorders may be unable to find ways of coping with or reducing their feelings of anxiety. | | | Anxiety disorders are a group of very common, serious, yet treatable disorders that affect behaviour, thoughts, feelings and physical sensations. | | | Experts believe that most anxiety disorders are caused by a combination of biological and environmental factors, in the same way as medical disorders such as heart disease or diabetes. |
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| | Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adults |
| | Anxiety Disorders Association of America Information for both consumers and clinicians about OCD and other forms of anxiety. | | | The degree of anxiety experienced in connection with the obsessions may be so pervasive that it can resemble generalized anxiety disorder. | | | Some of the anxiety disorders have similarities to OCD and are called obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders. |
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| | SEREDYN - Relieves Anxiety Fast |
| | SEREDYN is not a drug and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, or any other disease. | | | The natural ingredients in SEREDYN provide fast-acting, long-lasting anxiety relief. | | | Take SEREDYN every day for chronic anxiety or "as needed" for occasional anxiety or panic attacks. |
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| | Matti Mintz - Disorders of anxiety |
| | We hope to demonstrate that such training will improve the balance skills and consequently delay the development of the anxiety symptoms in the vestibular mutants and ameliorate anxiety in the more anxious mice strain. | | | Both of these models are expected to demonstrate that balance disability precipitates the development of anxiety, and the vestibular mutant model is expected to demonstrate that the onset of balance impairment precedes the onset of anxiety symptoms. | | | Causal relations between the disorders imply that treatment should be directed mainly at one of the disorders. |
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| | Sexual disorder |
| | Hudson Valley Center for Cognitive Therapy Provides psychotherapy treatment of depression, anxiety disorders (Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, OCD, PTSD, Social Phobia), substance abuse, and relationship/sexual issues. | | | Sexual aversion disorder An avoidance of or aversion to genital sexual contact 3. | | | Male erectile disorder Inability to gain an erection or inability to maintain an erection once it has occurred. |
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| | Differential Diagnosis of Addictive Sexual Disorders Using the DSM-IV |
| | Infrequent disorders in the differential diagnosis consist of substance-induced anxiety disorder, substance-induced mood disorder, dissociative disorder, delusional disorder (erotomania), obsessive-compulsive disorder, gender identity disorder, and delirium, dementia, or other cognitive disorder. | | | Axis I diagnoses are clinical disorders, including cognitive disorders (such as delirium, dementia, and amnesia), mood disorders (such as depression or bipolar illness), anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, substance-related disorders, dissociative disorders, sexual and gender identity disorders, eating disorders, sleep disorders, and impulse-control disorders. | | | Even when diminished control over one's behavior is a feature of the disorder, having the diagnosis in itself does not demonstrate that a particular individual is (or was) unable to control his or her behavior at a particular time. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Anxiety |
| | People with too much anxiety often suffer from one of the anxiety disorders, a group of mental illnesses. | | | People with generalized anxiety disorder often find that their worries interfere with their ability to function at work or concentrate on tasks. | | | These include generalized anxiety disorder, phobias, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. |
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| | Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General - Chapter 4 |
| | Acute stress disorder refers to the anxiety and behavioral disturbances that develop within the first month after exposure to an extreme trauma. | | | Panic disorder is also concomitantly diagnosed, or co-occurs, with other specific anxiety disorders, including social phobia (up to 30 percent), generalized anxiety disorder (up to 25 percent), specific phobia (up to 20 percent), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (up to 10 percent) (DSM-IV). | | | They encompass a group of conditions that share extreme or pathological anxiety as the principal disturbance of mood or emotional tone. |
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| | Clinical/Counseling Psychology Resources |
| | Disorders involving persistent, unrealistic, yet intense anxiety that, unlike the free-floating anxiety of panic disorder, is attached to external situations or stimuli. | | | Disorders characterized by long-standing, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, urges, or behaviors that involve inanimate objects, actual or imagined suffering or humiliation of oneself or one's partner, or nonconsenting partners and that are associated with clinically important distress or disability. | | | Somatoform disorders: A group of psychiatric disorders characterized by physical symptoms that suggest but are not fully explained by a physical disorder and that cause significant distress or interfere with social, occupational, or other functioning. |
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| | Panic Disorder - MentalHealthChannel |
| | Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by frequent, recurring panic attacks. | | | Panic disorder is a fairly common condition that can occur at any age, but usually occurs in people between the ages of 12 and 45. | | | In studies of twins with panic disorder, identical twins are five times as likely as fraternal twins to share the disorder. |
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