Types of Anxiety Disorder:

There are several major types of anxiety disorders, each anxiety disorder has different set of symptoms but the entire symptoms cluster around excessive, fear and dread. Here are the individual anxiety disorders listed below.

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD): A person suffers from GAD if he persistently thinks that something bad is going to happen and constant fear and worries distract him from his day-to-day activities.
• Panic Disorder: Panic disorder is caused by recurrent, spontaneous panic attacks. In panic attacks patient suffer by recurrent, spontaneous attacks of terror, usually accompanied by a pounding heart, sweatiness, weakness and faintness.
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): People suffering with OCD have constant, unwanted, upsetting thoughts and use repetitive behaviour to control the anxiety that is being produced by these thoughts. Most of the time, the rituals end up controlling them.
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): It is caused by some terrifying or horrible event that involved physical and sexual abuse, one's (or someone else's) looming death, violation, personal injury, or powerful pain The victims appear to be sleepwalking, depressed, not interested in anything and find pleasure in nothing.
• Social Phobia: The Social Anxiety Disorder, Social Phobia, and Social Phobia Disorder, is a mental disorder which is expressed through anxiety attack symptoms during social contacts and performance. It causes intense distress in response to public situations.
• Specific Phobias: A specific phobia patient suffers an intense fear of something that poses little or no actual danger. If a person is afraid of fly or avoid going to doctor or for a dental appointments, then he is suffering from a specific phobia. The person may come to avoid the feared object or situation.
• Seperation Anxiety Disorder: It generally occurs in older children younger than 18 years of age. Person fears about losing parents or about the parent/caregiver being harmed or fear of being kidnapped or getting lost.
• Acute Stress Disorder: This disorder develops within one month after a person experiences or sees an event that involved a threat or actual death, physical violation, serious injury to the individual or others, and respond to this event with strong feelings of fear, helplessness or horror. Anxiety and disturbed behaviour that can occur in the time after an extreme trauma.