Anxiety Can Take Several Forms:

Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD):

This is a long term condition that causes excessive anxiety relating to a variety of situations.

Panic Disorder:

Recurring and regular panic attacks that develop quickly and unexpectedly. A person may experience an overwhelming sense of apprehension and overwhelming anxiety. Each attack is accompanied by feelings of fear or terror. Inevitably, the sufferer starts to fear the next attack. Some physical symptoms that accompany a panic attack might include nausea, shaking and trembling, palpitations or shortness of breath.

Phobias:

This is an extreme fear of an object, animal, place, situation or feeling.

There are two sorts of phobias; Specific (i.e. spiders, snakes, flying, injections, birds) and non-specific (open spaces, crowds, being ill, the dark).

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder:

Anxiety following a traumatic event, such as the death of a loved one, war, or being the victim of a crime. Psychological and physical symptoms are created by these distressing, life-threatening or frightening events.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder:

Recurring irrational thoughts that lead you to perform specific, repeated behaviour(s).

Separation Anxiety:

Fear of being away from home or from a loved one(s).

Hypochondria:

Anxiety that centres on your health

Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD):

This is a social phobia, which exhibits as a persistent and overwhelming fear of social situations. It is more than just shyness and can be an intense fear affecting the most commonplace of activities like going shopping or speaking on the phone. People who suffer from SAD typically have a fear of saying or doing something that might cause them to feel embarrassed or perhaps experience humiliation (i.e. appearing incompetent). Social Phobia is closely tied to low self-esteem and lack of self-confidence.