{"id":5808,"date":"2022-09-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveyourlifept.com\/blog\/?p=5808"},"modified":"2022-09-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T12:00:00","slug":"anxiety-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liveyourlifept.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/30\/anxiety-disorders\/","title":{"rendered":"Anxiety Disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Anxiety is a normal response to stress.<\/strong>\u00a0But when it becomes hard to control and affects your day-to-day life, it can be disabling. Anxiety disorders affect nearly 1 in 5 adults in the United States.<\/a> <\/sup>Women are more than twice as likely as men to get an anxiety disorder in their lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is anxiety?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness, or fear about an event or situation. It is a normal reaction to stress. It helps you stay alert for a challenging situation at work, study harder for an exam, or remain focused on an important speech. In general, it helps you cope. But anxiety can be disabling if it interferes with daily life, such as making you dread nonthreatening day-to-day activities like riding the bus or talking to a coworker. Anxiety can also be a sudden attack of terror when there is no threat.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are anxiety disorders?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anxiety disorders happen when excessive anxiety interferes with your everyday activities such as going to work or school or spending time with friends or family. Anxiety disorders are serious mental illnesses. They are the most common mental disorders in the United States. Anxiety disorders are more than twice as common in women as in men. Major types of anxiety disorders include Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Panic disorder, Social Phobia, and Specific Phobia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signs and Symptoms of an anxiety disorder:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women with anxiety disorders experience a combination of anxious thoughts or beliefs, physical symptoms, and changes in behavior, including avoiding everyday activities they used to do. Each anxiety disorder has different symptoms. They all involve a fear and dread about things that may happen now or in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Physical symptoms may include:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n