While anxiety about sports activities or school is frequent and excessive during childhood and adolescence; Anxiety about their own personal health or the health of their friends, relatives, or loved ones is quite common among adults and older individuals. It is observed that the symptoms of anxiety affect the individual more in younger people than in older individuals. Children generally attach excessive importance to certain things being on time. Unfortunately, this situation accelerates children's anxiety about time. Another common anxiety in children is their fears about disaster scenarios (natural disasters or war).
There are many types of anxiety. Its source varies from individual to individual. Common types are as follows.
Generalized anxiety disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder, without any threat-causing; In other words, it is a type of anxiety disorder that occurs when individuals have excessive and uncontrollable feelings of worry and tension without a specific reason. Anxiety, which is a normal emotion, is so intense that it disrupts people's lives; One of the most common situations in general anxiety disorder is that people change their daily lives, jobs, academic or social lives in order to escape from negativities or alleviate their anxiety. Physical symptoms such as fatigue, headache, nausea, difficulty swallowing, sweating and hot flushes may be observed. Generalized anxiety disorder; It is when a person feels uneasy and anxious about everything. Worrying about uncontrollable situations such as a burglar breaking into the house, someone hurting oneself in traffic, an earthquake, oneself or one's loved ones getting sick, or not being able to pay debts can make a person restless and unable to sleep at night. Its lifetime incidence is 5-6%. In other words, 5-6 out of every 100 people may experience this disorder at any time in their lives. Anxiety sensitivity increases with age. It is the most common anxiety disorder in old age. r.
Panic disorder
Panic disorder, better known as panic attack, is a sudden, sudden attack at unexpected times. It occurs with a strong feeling of panic that emerges in a certain way and reaches its peak within minutes. There is no obvious vital situation or any trigger in this type of disorder. Sudden and intense fear can lead to panic attacks. With the effect of these negative feelings, which occur excessively depending on the current situation,pain may be felt in the chest area, shortness of breath may occur, sweat may be discharged from the body, and an acceleration in heartbeat may be observed. Sometimes this process can be so severe that you think you are drowning or having a heart attack. Individuals may already have the delusion that they are having a heart attack, that they cannot breathe, that they are suffocating, and they may apply to hospitals, especially emergency services, with symptoms such as sweating, chest pain, and tachycardia. Because they think their situation is urgent or even that they are about to die. For a person who has experienced this situation once, the fear of experiencing the same situation again may also be added to the symptoms. Moreover, in these individuals, anxiety arises in case the panic attack may develop again. Although the duration of attacks varies from individual to individual, they do not last very long. The prevalence of panic disorder in the population is between 2-4%. It is twice as common in women as in men.
Although the symptoms of anxiety and panic attack are similar, they are different problems. In anxiety, there is constant uneasiness and it constantly makes itself felt in the subconscious. In a panic attack, the individual feels attacked and in danger, thinks he will faint, his heart beats fast and his breath becomes short. While anxiety is an emotion felt generally throughout the day, panic attack, as its name suggests, is a disorder that occurs in the form of attacks.
Social Anxiety disorder
Social anxiety disorder, also known as social phobia; individual individual In relationships, it is the state of feeling anxious and stressed about others' judgment and ridicule of one's actions. It is the fear of people being humiliated or making a fool in crowded environments. This fear is a persistent fear. It is a subtype of anxiety disorder that expresses the high level of anxiety that occurs in social environments and the fear of being judged by others and being embarrassed. Especially in performance-based situations and social environments, the individual; He thinks that he will be embarrassed, behave in a way that will make him feel ashamed, or will be evaluated negatively and humiliated. Individuals with this disorder are reluctant to speak loudly in crowds, eat and attend invitations. Social phobia is a common disorder that usually begins in childhood or adolescence. The lifetime incidence rate is between 2-13%. Unlike other phobias, social phobia occurs equally in men and women. A socially phobic person generally avoids situations where he or she could be evaluated, and exhibits a shy attitude by showing signs of anxiety in situations where he or she cannot avoid it. Eating out, speaking or performing in public, using public restrooms, or doing any work in the presence of others is extremely anxiety-provoking for these people. When socially phobic people have to enter a public, they exhibit physical symptoms such as facial flushing, hand tremors, nausea, heart palpitations, sweating, fear of vomiting, watery eyes, and they are afraid that these symptoms will be noticed by everyone in the community. In this case, they avoid entering the community.
Selective mutism
Selective mutism, whose other names are selective mutism or selective speechlessness; Mutism comes from the Latin word "mutus", meaning silent, silence. It is a disorder that usually manifests itself in childhood. This disorder can occur in many different ways. It is basically divided into two as selective and total mutism (total failure to speak). While selective mutism is seen in children, total mutism is usually seen in adults. Although children can communicate with other family members at home, in social environments such as school, It is the state of not being able to express themselves in society. Care should be taken as this situation may negatively affect education and business life.
Generalized anxiety disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder (JAD), also known as chronic anxiety disorder. It is the occurrence of excessive anxiety even in routine activities and activities. For example, most of us may worry about our financial situation from time to time. However, an individual with JAD worries about his financial situation several times a day for months and unfortunately cannot control it. The individual knows very well that he should not worry about this situation, but he is unable to control it and continues to worry. There may be other issues, for example, the health of loved ones or the dangers of air transportation. The person may have difficulty controlling these feelings, which occur out of proportion to the current situation. Caution should be exercised as this type of anxiety disorders may be accompanied by other related disorders and psychiatric conditions such as depression. This excessive and unrealistic anxiety can become increasingly frightening and negatively affect daily functions.
Phobias
A person's extreme fear, anxiety and fear of a certain situation or object. Feeling anxious is classified as a phobia. Phobias may be directed towards certain objects or situations. Fear of heights, spider phobia, agoraphobia, fear of toilets, blood sickness and disease phobia (hypochondria) can be given as examples of phobias that can cause anxiety. In phobias, the person does not necessarily have to encounter the situation or object in question. Even the thought of a situation or object can trigger a phobia and cause severe anxiety and even panic attacks in the person. The person's fear is often extreme and people may develop various behavioral patterns to avoid these situations. Those with phobia are often aware that their fear is excessive, but they cannot prevent it. Specific phobias can manifest as fear of heights. People with this fear may feel anxious about boarding a plane or living in high-rise houses.
Agoraphobia
An open place or a crowded place. People with agoraphobia, which refers to a state of anxiety caused by light, may feel negative emotions such as feeling trapped, needy and ashamed in addition to anxiety in such environments. Agoraphobic individuals may feel fear and anxiety in a crowd, in case of an emergency or anxiety, because their mobility is limited and they think they will not be able to get help quickly. People with this disorder do not want to be in places that are far from the doctor, such as movie theaters, nature activities, public transportation.
Separation anxiety
Separation anxiety, which is mostly observed in children. If it is not resolved during the child's development, it may continue into adulthood and turn into a fear of abandonment by a loved one or family members. Even leaving the caregiver, family elders or parents who were close to them in childhood out of sight can trigger separation anxiety in the child. At the same time, people with separation anxiety often experience the delusion that something bad will happen to their loved one. Individuals with separation anxiety feel very anxious when they leave their loved ones and want to be in front of them at all times. Separation anxiety; It refers to the state of anxiety and fear that a person develops when he/she moves away from the figure to whom he/she is attached. Apart from moving away, the thought that the attachment figure will be harmed may also be a source of concern. Various symptoms that may occur due to nightmares and being physically affected by thoughts about this issue are among the symptoms of separation anxiety. Although this condition is usually encountered in childhood, there is a possibility that separation anxiety may continue in adulthood in some people.
Obsession disorder (obsessive compulsive disorder-OCD)
OCD , in other words, obsessive-compulsive disorder (obsession-compulsive disorder) is the recurring obsessive and obsessive behaviors. People are in a constant state of fear because of involuntary thoughts that occur and develop. To suppress these thoughts, people constantly wash their hands, check the door lock and whether the stove is turned off. In society, this situation
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