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What is Anxiety Disorders?

What is Anxiety Disorders?

• Anxiety Disorders: Various syndromes with excessive anxiety, phobias, or fear.
• Anxiety Disorders: Apprehension of danger and dread accompanied by restlessness, tension, tachycardia, and dyspnea unattached to a clearly identifiable stimulus.
  Source - Diseases Database

Anxiety Disorders: Introduction

Types of Anxiety Disorders:

Types of Anxiety Disorders:

• Panic disorder
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Social phobia
• Phobias
• Specific phobias
• Generalized anxiety disorder
• Separation anxiety disorder
• Acute stress disorder
• Anxiety disorder due to medical condition
• Substance-induced anxiety disorder
• Anxiety disorder NOS
• more types...»

Broader types of Anxiety Disorders:

• Neurosis
• Mental illness
• Adolescent conditions
• Over-diagnosed conditions
• Emotional disorders
• Psychological disorders
• Psychiatric disorders
• more types...»

How many people get Anxiety Disorders?

Prevalance of Anxiety Disorders: estimated 16.4% adults (USSG); 19.1 million American adults (NIMH); 13.3% of adults (NIMH)
Prevalance Rate of Anxiety Disorders: approx 1 in 6 or 16.40% or 44.6 million people in USA [about data]
Prevalance of Anxiety Disorders: Anxiety disorders are serious medical illnesses that affect approximately 19 million American adults. (Source: excerpt from Anxiety Disorders: NIMH)

How serious is Anxiety Disorders?

Complications of Anxiety Disorders: see complications of Anxiety Disorders

What causes Anxiety Disorders?

Causes of Anxiety Disorders: see causes of Anxiety Disorders
Risk factors for Anxiety Disorders: see risk factors for Anxiety Disorders

What are the symptoms of Anxiety Disorders?

Symptoms of Anxiety Disorders: see symptoms of Anxiety Disorders

Complications of Anxiety Disorders: see complications of Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety Disorders: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Anxiety Disorders.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Anxiety Disorders.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Anxiety Disorders: see treatments for Anxiety Disorders
Research for Anxiety Disorders: see research for Anxiety Disorders

Society issues for Anxiety Disorders

Cost statistics for Anxiety Disorders: The following are statistics from various sources about costs and Anxiety Disorders:

• Anxiety disorders cost the economy $42 billion each year in the US (Anxiety Disorders Association of America)
• $22.84 billion is spent each year on healthcare services for anxiety disorders in the US (Anxiety Disorders Association of America)
• more statistics...»

Hospitalization statistics for Anxiety Disorders: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Anxiety Disorders:

• 0.05% (6,579) of hospital consultant episodes were for anxiety disorders in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 90% of hospital consultant episodes for anxiety disorders required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 34% of hospital consultant episodes for anxiety disorders were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 66% of hospital consultant episodes for anxiety disorders were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 81% of hospital consultant episodes for anxiety disorders required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 22.5 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for anxiety disorders in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 7 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for anxiety disorders in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• more statistics...»

Organs Affected by Anxiety Disorders:

mental

Name and Aliases of Anxiety Disorders

Main name of condition: Anxiety Disorders

Other names or spellings for Anxiety Disorders:

Anxiety state Source - Diseases Database

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