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 |
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) arises as an immediate, delayed and/or protracted response to a traumatic or stressful event of an exceptionally threatening or catastrophic |
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Phobias
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. |
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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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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder characterised by obsessions and compulsions. |
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The links between anxiety and depression
Depression and anxiety disorders frequently co-exist. Approximately 50% of people who are clinically depressed, also suffer from an anxiety disorder. |
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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 |
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Generalised Anxiety Disorder
- Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is an anxiety disorder
- It is characterised by excessive anxiety and worry
- It often co-exists with depression, other anxiety disorders and substance abuse
- Symptoms tend to grow worse with time if the condition is not treated
- It tends to run in families
- It is best treated by a combination of medication and psychotherapy
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