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Anxiety disorders

Anxiety disorders

Everybody knows what it's like to feel anxious – the butterflies in your stomach before a first date, the tension you feel when someone important to you is angry with you

Generalised Anxiety Disorder

People with generalised anxiety disorder experience more than day-to-day anxiety. Worries are excessive, unrealistic, chronic and relentless.

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) arises as an immediate, delayed and/or protracted response to a traumatic or stressful event.

Fear or phobia?

Do you have an intense fear for animals, heights, blood, injections, planes? Would you rather climb ten flights than to get into a lift? If so, you may be suffering from a phobia.

Social Anxiety Disorder

Social anxiety disorder (SAD), is as its name suggests an anxiety disorder, and is also known as social phobia. A phobia is an irrational fear resulting in a conscious avoidance

Panic Disorder

Panic disorder is characterised by the occurrence of repeated panic attacks, which last anything from a few seconds to a few minutes, but which are experienced as extremely frightening and uncomfortable.

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