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Stop the Anxiety!
Anxiety Disorders
Counseling and Mental Health
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What is an Anxiety
Disorder?
Most common of all mental disorders and
frequently run in families
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Signs and Symptoms
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Dizziness
Shaking
Sweating
Nausea
Numbness sensation
Fear of going crazy
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Types of Anxiety and Related
Disorders
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Panic Disorder
Different from panic attack
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Agoraphobia
Severe anxiety about being in situations
from which escape might be difficult
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Social Phobia
Fear of social performance situation in
which a person is exposed to unfamiliar
people or scrutiny by others
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Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD)
Anxiety and behavioral disturbances that
develop during or shortly following extreme
trauma and lasts more than one month
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Acute Stress Disorder
Follows traumatic event but symptoms may
last from two days to one month
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Generalized Anxiety
Disorder (GAD)
Anxiety and worry that occur more days
than not
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Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder (OCD)
Repeated thoughts, feelings (obsessions)
Driven to do something (compulsions)
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Obsessive
Recurrent, impulses/images that are
perceived as inappropriate or forbidden
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Compulsions
Repetitive behaviors that reduce anxiety
that accompanies an obsession or ‘prevent’
a dreaded event from happening
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Resources and References
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Source: Help Guide, a trusted non-profit resource
Symptoms and treatment of compulsive behavior and obsessive thoughts
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/obsessive_compulsive_disorder_ocd.htm
Employment Statistics
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
United States Department of Labor
http://www.bls.gov
Anxiety Disorders
Source: National Institute of Mental Health
Transforming the understanding and treatment of mental illness
http://www.nimh.nih.gov
Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia
Source: Anxiety Disorders Association of America
Anxiety disorders are real, serious and treatable
http:// www.adaa.org
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