Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders are psychological disorders where the chief component is anxiety, and where this anxiety is responsible for functional impairment and/or subjective distress, and is not better explained by another psychiatric condition. Which Disorders Are Anxiety...
Social Anxiety Disorder

Social Anxiety Disorder

What Is Social Phobia? Social phobia is also called social anxiety disorder. It is diagnosed when people become overwhelmingly anxious and excessively self-conscious in everyday social situations. People with social phobia have an intense, persistent and chronic fear...
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

What Is OCD? People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have persistent, upsetting thoughts (obsessions) and use rituals (compulsions) to attempt to control the anxiety these thoughts produce. However, most of the time the rituals end up controlling them. For...
Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

What Is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)? Generalized Anxiety Disorder or GAD is a psychological disorder characterized by excessive or disproportionate anxiety about several aspects of life, such as work, social relationships, or financial matters. People with GAD...