Essays on Anxiety Disorder

“Anxiety” the term itself is always overused in our average daily life. Many people associate day-to-day agitations with anxiety. The National Institute of Mental Health (2018) helps shed some light to express better what anxiety is, declaring : …anxiety disorders involve more than temporary worry or fear. For a person with an anxiety disorder, the...

Anxiety Disorder Specific phobias usually develop at a young age as a result of an early traumatic experience or witnessing the phobia of a family member. A complex phobia like social phobia or agoraphobia, are believed by researchers to result from a combination of life experiences, genetics and brain chemistry. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder The American Psychiatric...

I am studying anxiety disorders because I want to find out if it can be cured without medication so that I can better understand how to cope with it myself. Anxiety disorders affect more than 40 million adults in the U.S. alone, which is about 18.1% of the country’s total population (Anxiety and Depression Association...