Detailed checklist of Anxiety Disorder Symptoms and Co-Occurring Disorders
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
GAD is diagnosed when a person worries excessively about a variety of everyday problems for at least 6 months. People who are suffering with Generalized Anxiety Disorder go through the day filled with exaggerated worry and tension, even though there is little or nothing to provoke it. They anticipate disaster and are overly concerned about health issues, money, family problems, or difficulties at work. Sometimes just the thought of getting through the day produces anxiety. People with GAD can’t seem to get rid of their concerns, even though they usually realize that their anxiety is more intense than the situation warrant.
Some common symptoms of GAD are described below:
- Unnecessarily getting worried over petty matters every day or after every few weeks and months
- Helpless is controlling your mood and worries
- Feeling impatient at times
- Get exhausted very fast
- Lack of concentration while working
- Losing temper very often
- Influenced by what people say
- Unable to sleep and give rest to your mind
Panic Disorder (Panic Attacks and Agoraphobia)
There are people who develop fear due to certain things and activities going around and hence they get panic attacks which are known as Panic disorder. Other symptoms can be feeling fearful, sweating, feeling about unreal things etc.
Another aspect related to Panic disorder is Agoraphobia which is nothing but getting a minor attack between the panic attacks. It usually involves fear of crowds, bridges, or of being outside alone. If it occurs with panic disorder, it usually starts in a person’s 20s, and women are affected more often than men.
Symptoms of panic attacks are:
- Continuously thinking about having panic attacks
- Distressed about the attacks and things which will be followed after the attack
- Behavioral changes in attitude and perspective of looking in to things
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
People who are suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder are engaged in their own thoughts and do all the tasks more than once. This is done so that they do not develop any kind of stress as they wish to feel free from issues like sex, aggression, faith etc.
Obsessive view of OCD individuals are:
- Desperate about cleanliness
- Doing thing in the best way and analyzing it carefully whether it is correct or not
- Harming oneself or other people
- Continuously worried about things happening around
- Weird thoughts coming in to your mind
- Extremely thinking on religion and rituals
- Making opinion on after effects of panic disorder
Compulsive view of OCD individuals are:
- Frequently checking locks of your doors and windows
- Checking the safety of the members
- Engaged in things which have no meaning or saying aloud some words or sentence
- Grooming oneself again and again
- Putting their things in right order
- Performing religious activities
- Collecting needless things
- Reacting to situations in a weird manner
- Difficulty in adding or counting numbers
Social Anxiety Disorder (or Social Phobia)
Social phobia is commonly referred as Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). It is an intensely panic situation where there is an extreme fear of being embarrassed, degraded, and negatively evaluated at a social event or situation. Shyness and nervousness are two trivial symptoms while a person suffering from this phobia can go to any extent to avoid a situation that can trigger their agony and make it uncontrollable. Public speaking, communicating with strangers, taking over telephone, sharing a public restroom and even writing in front of many people are some of the major situations where you can find cases of social phobia.
Warning signs of Social Anxiety Disorder or social phobia can be physical or psychological, entailing:
- Escaping from social events and situations to the maximum possible extent
- Severe perplexing while counting days, months before a likely to have social event
- Frightened because of being watched and other’s comments
- Encountering intense fear of being embarrassed on account of your own doings
- Throbbing heart and fast or uneasy breathing
- Vomiting, wooziness, sweating or trembling
Some Phobias or Fears
Developing an acute feeling of intense actual or hypothetical fear is known as phobia. Most of the victims perceive that their fear is not reasonable actually but they are unable to stop or control it. Different types of phobias may cause overpowering and automatic fear. Survivors of these phobias can go to extreme limits where they can be confronted with some life costing changes. Fears or phobias from animal, situational phobias, natural environment and blood-injection-injury phobias are some of the important types of phobias that you can generally come across. All of these phobias have their specific reasons and symptoms to deal with.
General indicators of phobias encompass:
- Breathing problems
- A suffocating feeling or choking sensation
- Pain in chest and faster heart beat
- Wobbly or quivering postures
- Queasiness, giddiness and perspiration
- Feeling isolated from someone
- Panic for early dying
- Apprehension of being out of control or going mad
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