Anxiety Disorders

• A group of conditions what the primary symptoms are anxiety or defense against anxiety
• The patient fears something awful will happen to them
• They are in a state of intense apprehension uneasiness
• certainty , or fear

Phobia

• A person experiences sudden episodes of intense dread
• must be an irrational fear

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• An anxiety disorder a person is continuously tense, apprehension and in state in a automomic nervous system arousal
• Constantly tense and worried feels inadequate is over sensitive cant concentrate and suffer from insomnia

Panic Disorder

• An anxiety disorder marked by a minute-long episode of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain choking and other frightening sensation 

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

• Persistent unwanted thoughts (obsession) cause some one to feel the need engage in a particular action
• obsession about dirt and germs may lead to compulsive hand washing

Post-Traumatic Disorder aka PTSD

• Flashbacks or nightmares following a person's involvement in or observation of an extremely stressful event
• memories of the even cause anxiety

Somatoform Disorder

• occur when a person manifest a psychological problem through a physiological symptoms

1. Hypochondriasis

•  frequent physical complaints for which medical doctors are unable to locate the cause
• they usually  believe that the minor issues (head aches, upset stomachs) these indicating a severe illness

Conversion Disorder

• report the existence of severe physical problems with no biological reason
• like blindness or paralysis