Different Types Of Anxiety Disorder

Anxiety helps people confront danger and difficult situations, and to cope  with external threats as well. Anyway, there are quite some people who are not so lucky like we are. Their discomfort from anxiety is persisting over time, which is also largely irrational. Such individuals are considered to be suffering from a condition known as an anxiety disorder. There are quite a few causes and triggers for it, which your doctor will study to find what kind of anxiety disorder the person is suffering from.

Baseless Anxiety

The most common form of anxiety disorder is the one that is termed as general anxiety disorder (GAD) which has characteristics such as lengthy periods of anxiety that is baseless but still present over a period of time. GAD is a condition in which the person suffering from it is incapable of explaining their anxiety. This is  a problem, that also seems to affect women more than men. Typically this form of anxiety disorder lasts for about six months and it persists and causes the sufferer to experience dizziness, headaches, insomnias and there is also some amount of palpitation of the heart felt as well.

Some people develop specific phobias, and this kind of anxiety disorder is unique in that the sufferer is not able to find a reason for their irrational fear of certain objects or situations. It is different from normal phobia that most everyone experiences, as the fear being felt in this case is intense and causes nauseous feelings as well as breathlessness, shaking and a palpitating heart.

Another form of anxiety disorder is the one termed as post-traumatic stress disorder. It occurs in people that have suffered a severe and emotionally upsetting traumatic experience, such as having been subjected to threat to their lives or even having witnessing someones death. Sometimes such people come into contact with certain stimuli that cause them to associate the stimulus with the past traumatic event and this in turn will cause post-traumatic stress disorder.

Other forms of anxiety disorder include obsessive-compulsive disorders, panic disorders, and social phobias. People that are affected by obsessive-compulsive disorders will have a continuous obsession and/or compulsion in which unwanted thoughts and images preoccupy their minds, and any attempt to suppress these thoughts will lead to exacerbation of the thoughts rather than suppression of the disturbing thoughts.

Panic disorders show certain attributes like return of panic attacks that take place suddenly. People suffering from social phobias think, they are the centre of everyone's attention, what is not always the case.