Understanding Anxiety: Symptoms, Types, and Treatment

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Is anxiety a symptom of a mental illness?

Illness anxiety disorder. This is anxiety about your health (formerly called hypochondria). In addition, a number of mental health and medical conditions may feature anxiety as a symptom. These include: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This is anxiety following a traumatic event. Major depressive disorders.

What is anxiety & how does it affect your life?

Anxiety is a feeling of stress, panic or fear that can affect your everyday life physically and psychologically. Read about the different types of anxiety, such as social anxiety, health anxiety and panic attacks. Read about anxiety in children, including signs, causes and how to help.

Can anxiety be a symptom?

There are a number of conditions that have anxiety as a symptom, or have anxiety in the name – like social anxiety, social phobia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This guide is designed to help with general anxiety symptoms. Working through this guide can take around 30 to 40 minutes, but you should feel free to work at your own pace.

What is anxiety & panic disorder?

Often, anxiety disorders involve repeated episodes of sudden feelings of intense anxiety and fear or terror that reach a peak within minutes (panic attacks). These feelings of anxiety and panic interfere with daily activities, are difficult to control, are out of proportion to the actual danger and can last a long time.

What Is Anxiety

1. https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/mental-health-issues/anxiety/
2. https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/anxiety-and-panic-attacks/about-anxiety/
3. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/anxiety/symptoms-causes/syc-20350961
4. https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/mental-health/anxiety
5. https://www.healthline.com/health/anxiety
6. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/anxiety-disorders
7. https://mentalhealth-uk.org/help-and-information/conditions/anxiety-disorders/what-is-anxiety/

Anxiety Information

1. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/anxiety-disorders