What are Anxiety Disorders?
Anxiety disorders are serious medical illnesses that affect approximately 19 million American adults. These disorders fill people's lives with overwhelming anxiety and fear.
Unlike the relatively mild, brief anxiety caused by a stressful event such as a business presentation or a first date, anxiety disorders are chronic, relentless, and can grow progressively worse if not treated.
Effective treatments for anxiety disorders are available, and research is yielding new, improved therapies that can help most people with anxiety disorders lead productive, fulfilling lives.
There are five major types of anxiety disorder:
Click on any of the disorders below to learn more.
Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder (OCD)
Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Social
Phobia (or Social Anxiety Disorder)
Each anxiety disorder has its own distinct features, but they are all bound together by the common theme of excessive, irrational fear and dread.
"Hope is necessary in every condition."
Samuel Johnson
1709-1784
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