Anxiety Disorders

General information

General anxiety exists in the course of normal life. While learning a job, people experience anxiety when making important decisions before taking an exam. But in these cases, the anxiety is temporary. Anxiety disorder is a different situation that is not temporary and does not improve on its own, manifests itself with the return of physical symptoms to health problems over time. Work life performance (achievement, ability), school life and relationships are affected in anxiety disorders.

Anxiety disorders are divided into the following types ?

•   Common anxiety disorder

•  Social anxiety disorder (social phobia)

Panic disorder

•   Diseases related to phobia (anxiety)

•   Specific phobias (simple phobias)

•   Agoraphobia

•  Separation anxiety

•   Selective mutism

Generalized anxiety disorder

People are in extreme anxiety and sadness, and their complaints last longer than six months. There are disruptions and disruptions in their physical health, social interactions and daily tasks. In other words, fear and anxiety leave deep effects in the health, work, school and social areas of life, disruptions and disruptions occur.

Symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.

• Restlessness

  feeling as if she is being injured or exposed to something

• Getting tired easily

• Difficulties in concentration and pauses in the cognitive field, such as brain arrest

• Easy irritability

• Muscle tension

• Uncontrollable feeling of sadness

• Inability to fall asleep unable to maintain restless sleep

Panic  is available as a separate title in the health guide. See there.

Phobia-related h astalıks

Phobia (or ilgi in Turkish) is a state of extreme anxiety in the face of a specific object or situation. Although the object has a frightening side, the fear is far beyond what is expected and irrational.

General characteristics of phobic patients

 Anxiety and fear felt as the feared object or situation are irrational and extreme dimensions.

  Takes active steps to encounter the feared object or situation.

  If there is any kind of encounter, severe anxiety arises.

  If the encounter continues, anxiety continues to increase to abnormal extents.

There are several types of specific phobias

•    Specific phobia

•    Social anxiety disorder

• Agoraphobia

Specific phobia

It is defined as intense intolerable anxiety about a specific object and situation.

Common phobias

• Flying phobia

• Fear of heights

• Specific fear of animals such as spiders, snakes and dogs

• Injection

• Blood and encountering blood

Agoraphobia: With open spaces, closed environments, being in a crowd, waiting in line, at home It is the state of feeling excessive anxiety in situations such as being outside. Agoraphobic patients think that they will experience intense panic in these environments and they tend to avoid it. In severe forms, the person may stay indoors.

 Risk factors in anxiety disorders

• It is created by genetic and environmental factors.

• Those with personality traits leading to shyness and behavioral inhibition

• Negative life events in early childhood and adulthood, stressful experiences and growing up in a fearful environment Having a history of.

• Having a family history of anxiety disorder.

• Associating some diseases knows. thyroid diseases, such as arrhythmia.

• May be due to substance intake

• May be due to drugs

• It may be due to coffee.

Treatment

Treatment of anxiety disorders medication treatment is therapy and follow-up.

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