What are Anxiety Disorders?
Anxiety is an unpleasant emotional state characterized by fearfulness and unwanted and distressing physical symptoms.
It is a normal and appropriate response to stress but becomes a recognisable illness [Pathological anxiety] when it is disproportionate to the severity of the stress, continues after the stressor has gone, or occurs in the absence of any external stressful event.
Pathological anxiety can present in a variety of forms:
A generalised persistent state [generalised anxiety disorder]
Discrete attacks with no external stimulus [panic disorder]
Discrete attacks with a specific stimulus [phobias]
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