What are the types of anxiety?
There are a few types of anxiety, including:
Generalized anxiety disorder:
You feel excessive, unrealistic anxiety and stress due to typical daily tasks. These feelings may be permanent.
Panic disorder:
You feel a sudden, intense fear that triggers a panic attack. During a panic attack, you may sweat, feel chest pain, and have a rapid heartbeat (palpitations). Sometimes you may feel like you are suffocating or stop breathing. If you have had an attack, you may be wary of a recurrence and try to avoid certain triggers.
Social anxiety disorder:
Also called social phobia, this condition causes overwhelming anxiety and awkwardness in everyday social situations. You are obsessed with being judged, embarrassed, or teased by others. If you have this disorder, you should stay away from social media.
Agoraphobia:
This condition causes an intense fear of being overwhelmed or unable to escape or get help. People with agoraphobia often avoid new places and unfamiliar situations, such as large open or closed spaces, crowds of people, and places outside the home.
Specific phobias:
A phobia is when something makes you feel fear or anxiety so intense that it permanently and completely disrupts your life. There are hundreds of different types of phobias, and almost all of them have the same diagnosis: specific phobia. Only one phobia, agoraphobia, is a separate diagnosis.
Selective mutism:
This condition occurs when you do not speak up in certain situations due to fear or anxiety. It usually affects young children, but can also affect teenagers and adults.
Separation Anxiety:
Young children are not the only ones who experience fear or anxiety when a loved one dies. Anyone can get separation anxiety disorder. If this is the case, you will feel intense anxiety or fear when someone close to you leaves your sight. You will always worry that something bad might happen to your loved one. If you are older, you may experience this anxiety after a traumatic event.
Phobias:
You feel intense fear of a certain object or situation, such as heights or flying. Fear goes beyond what is appropriate and can cause you to avoid normal situations.
Conclusion:
Anxiety disorders are a group of disorders characterized by excessive fear, worry, or avoidance of various external and internal stimuli. They often begin in childhood and can have severely disabling effects on social, occupational, and other areas of functioning.
