
neatly fit into one of these seven categories they don’t have an anxiety. Additionally, these seven types are officially listed as anxiety disorders which may not cover your situation either. What you may be experiencing is mild to moderate everyday anxiety such as being uptight over a job interview or job performance review, your child’s school competition, seeing your grandchild for the first time, or getting a speeding ticket. In other words you are feeling stressed about an event that is rapidly approaching and it will pass just as rapidly. Now let get down to business and explore the seven types of anxiety disorders. *Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD): This is the mildest of our seven forms and also the most common. GAD involves a long lasting, almost constant state of tension and worry. You may have this form if your anxiety has shown up almost everyday for the last six months. You make an attempt to put the stress off to the side but no matter how hard to try it stays with you like a piece of old gum on the bottom of your shoe. Some of the signs of GAD are irritability, restlessness, fatigue, tenseness in your muscles (especially in the back, neck, and shoulders), inability to focus, and sleep problems including falling asleep and staying asleep. *Social phobia: Are you afraid of being criticized by others? If you answered yes you just might have a social phobia. People with this disorder dread going to public gatherings, are horrified at the prospect of performing in public, public speaking is petrifying, meeting new people if frightful, talking on the phone makes you uncomfortable, eating in public creates a sense of unease, and interacting with those in authority is more than difficult. They also see these situations as painful because they are expecting to be humiliated by less than flattering judgments from others. Social phobics believe that they’re somehow defective and inadequate; thus they assume they will mess up their lines, spill a drink or two, shake hands with sweaty palms, trip and fall for no reason, or accidentally do something stupid that will ruin their evening. If you have ever know a social phobic they operate very much in the what if mode rather than staying in the present. *Panic attack: We all have our perfectly normal moments of extreme panic from time to time. Such things as misplacing our car keys on the very day when you are running late for work, or your paycheck was misplaced by the boss and your bills were due yesterday are normal panic events. On the other hand a person who is suffering from a panic disorder is experiencing something entirely different and far more debilitating. They have periods of stunning and intense fear and anxiety. A panic attack is no fun and can become quite the spectacle is allowed to balloon out of control. The attacks usually last about ten minutes, and they are so intense that the person experiencing them believes that they will die during the attack. Some of the symptoms that occur during one of these devastating events are completely losing control, rapid racing heartbeat, sweating, shortness of breath, lightheadedness, chest pain, numbness in your extremities, hot and cold flashes, nausea, trembling and finally uncontrollable shaking. *Agoraphobia: Around fifty percent of those with a panic disorder have an additional problem; agoraphobia. Unlike most fears or phobias, this strange disorder often appears only after a person has reached adulthood. People living with agoraphobia are constantly in fear of being trapped. In addition, they worry about having a panic attack, throwing up, or having diarrhea in public. They desperately avoid situations from which they can’t readily escape, and they also fear places where help might not be readily forthcoming should they need it. The agoraphobic may start with one fear, such as being in a crowd, but in most cases the feared situations are blown so far out of proportion that the person is scared to death just to leave home. *Specific phobias: We all have some hard wired specific phobias passed down from our ancestors. So, if you were ever to meet one of your caveman ancestor you would really have to spend some time and effort, along with a few therapy sessions, to help him overcome his specific phobias. After all in his world snakes were often seen and very dangerous, strangers could be enemies, a person could fall from a height, darkness could present unseen dangers, open spaces could leave him vulnerable to attack from all sides, and the sight of blood would be linked to impending doom. So if he shows up don’t go to the blood drive on the ninth floor roof at midnight where “Snakes on a Plane” is the free entertainment while you wait. Just don’t do it! *Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): At first glance you may equate this solely with war veterans but this condition encompasses a much broader scope. Tragically, war, brutality, rape, terror, crashes, and natural disasters are a part of life. You or someone you know may have experienced one of life’s traumas. For some bouncing back from these traumatic events is no problem, for others recovery presents serious long term challenges which could include disabling long term symptoms. Most of the time a traumatic event causes at least a few uncomfortable emotional and/or physical reactions, at least for a while. These responses can show up immediately after the disaster, or sometimes, they rise to the surface years later. These symptoms are the way that the body and mind deal with and process what happened. If an extremely unfortunate event occurs, its normal to react strongly. *Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD): This condition is one of the most confusing and mesmerizing conditions on our list of seven. A person with OCD may exhibit behaviors that include an obsession or a compulsion or both. Obsessions are unwelcome repetitive images, impulses, or thoughts that leap into the mind. People find these thoughts and images disturbing and can’t get rid of them. For example a normally safe driver may have thoughts about running his car into the ditch for no particular reason, or a religious fellow may feel the urge to shout an obscenity or two in the middle of the pastors sermon. OCD certainly is not Tourette’s but most would agree with the observation that there is a fine line between having a weird thought and controlling it, or acting on the impulse, thus letting the thought control you. Compulsions are the action most often associated with OCD. They are undesirable repetitive actions or mental strategies carried out to temporarily reduce anxiety. From time to time, an obsessive thought causes the anxiety; at other times, the anxiety relates to some feared event or situation that triggers the compulsion. Examples of compulsions are excessive hand wash to avoid germs, lining up clothes in a specific order, or a certain bedtime ritual that consists of specific order of event. For those with OCD if any part of their plan goes awry they must start over until the exact sequence of events or specific order of objects is achieved.
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