Questions and Answers for Anxiety Disorders
 Q1 What is an Anxiety
Disorder?
Answer:
Anxiety is a feeling of being tense and worried about a
certain issue, which is what everyone feels at some stage
during most days. However an anxiety disorder is when the
impact of the level of anxiety reaches a point where it
interferes with a persons ability to go about their every day
life. The condition is marked by emotional states that can
range from mild unpleasant feelings, to intense fear that can
almost paralyse someone. Anxiety disorders are the most common
of all the mental related disorders. That said it is the
disorder with the highest recovery back to a full normal
lifestyle.
Q2 When does Anxiety Start to Occur?
Answer:
Early childhood seems to be the common start point for
this disorder and again in the early teenage years. Usually
when individuals become more impressionable and fall victim to
pear group pressure. Left untreated this disorder often leads
the person into depression, alcohol dependencies or substance
abuse. The majority of people suffering anxiety issue do not
take steps by themselves to get treatment, that’s why it is
important for family members or friends to ensure that they do
take steps to get a treatment plan in place and stick to it.
Early intervention leads to a better outcome in 95% of
all cases.
Q3. What are the different types of Anxiety
Disorders?
Answer:
The major types of disorders and there % of sufferers are as
follows;
1. Social anxiety
disorder (13%)
2. Generalise anxiety
disorder (3-5%)
3. Panic
disorder (2-3%)
(but up to 30% will suffer a panic attack once in a while)
4. Post-traumatic stress disorder
(1-3%)
5. Obsessive-compulsive
disorder (2-3%)
6. Substance-induced anxiety
disorder (1%)
7. Clinical anxiety
disorder (6%)
8. Phobias (5-12%)
* The percentages of sufferers comes
from “Issues in Society Volume 241 Anxiety and Depression”
Q4. Which is the worst Anxiety Disorder?
Answer:
Clinical Anxiety disorder is the worst form of this group.
It is usually has a high intensity of fear and debilitation on
the sufferer. This disorder runs parallel to depression in the
level of emotional stress it causes.
Q5. What causes Anxiety Disorders?
Answer:
Anxiety may be a condition all by itself but more usually it
is caused by an underlying psychiatric reaction to a particular
situation or event in a persons life. When it is a condition,
many factors cause the development of anxiety disorders. They
range from learned responses, hereditary factors passed down
through genes or personality traits such as where a person is
very shy or withdrawn. There is also some new research, which
indicates there may also be some biochemical imbalances
within the sufferer that cause the anxiety response to become
over heightened, which then triggers the anxiety/panic
attack.
Q6. Who suffers more from Anxiety Phobias?
Answer:
Phobias are more common in children but adults can be
overcome with phobias as well. A phobia often gives rise to an
unsettled state of mind and is often associated with a sick
heavy feeling in the stomach. Children seem to suffer more from
this anxiety disorder than adolescents and adults. This is
because they do not have the learning experience, or knowledge
built up over the years on which to call upon to help overcome
any fearful situation they are faced with. In adults many
strange phobias about specific ways things are to be done tend
to appear particularly within sports personalities. Many in
this group have phobias about items of clothing, which must be
worn, certain food eaten, a certain piece of equipment used
etc.
Q7. Isn’t Anxiety a normal feeling?
Answer:
Anxiety is a normal feeling as discussed in question 1. A
low level of anxiety has been found through clinical
studies to be helpful and makes us perform at our best.
Where it becomes a problem is when the level of anxiety starts
to impact on the sufferer. It can range in intensity from just
a feeling of being off colour, right through the spectrum to a
person being so debilitated as to be left lying on the ground
in a curled up position, unable to even look at the world, let
alone interact with others around them.
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