Essays on Anxiety Disorder

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The World Health Organization (WHO) says that there are about 400 million people around the world who are currently suffering from a mental illness. If all types of mental illnesses are considered, then it is safe to say that about one in four people will suffer from a mental disorder at one point in their lives. Out of the many mental illnesses, there are some that inflict a severe toll on their sufferers, on their lives and on their families as well. The effects of mental illness can be devastating on a person. However, those with even the most ...

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Research Problem The prevalence of social anxiety disorder (SAD) is considered as the most common disorder among the individuals regardless of their age and gender. The individuals with social anxiety are more prone to identifying the social threat at a higher extent and are sensitive to social situations. The high extent of social anxiety can lead towards the more complicated psychological conditions, mainly comprising of suicidal behavior, mood disorders and substance addiction, which eventually affects their academic and professional performance. The individuals with social anxiety tend to have highly dysfunctional personal relationships which also affect their quality of life ( ...

Avoidant personality disorder (APD) is a long standing maladaptive behavior that is characterized by certain key behavioral characters. Individuals with APD have severe inferiority complex, feel extremely shy and have a constant feeling of inadequacy in a social situation. They have a constant fear of facing rejection and are hypersensitive to embarrassment. The two core feature of this disorder is negative emotions and detachment. Like the pathology of most personality disorders, certain inner experiences direct the outward behavior of patients with APD. Certain personality traits, helps people to adapt to changes in the environment. However, certain aspect of a ...

Social fear is considered to be a form of social disorder wherein an individual tends to be in a state of anxiety when faced with a certain social situation. This kind of is said to emerge along with other psychological disorders such as depression (Jefferson, 2001). As of today, the cure for this kind of disorder is mainly through psychotheraphy and by medications which are usually considered as highly maintenance. Furthermore, one kind of psychotherapy, which is the so-called cognitive behavioral therapy, is regarded as the most common form of treatment for social phobia (Priyamvada, Kumari, Prakash, & Chaudhury, 2009). ...

Karen appears to have a very positive attitude about her future. She seems to have realized that the end of her relationship wasn’t about her but was about the lack of commitment on her partner’s part. Karen’s strengths lie in the fact that she is positive about her future and that she is making plans for that future. She has an optimistic outlook on her dating future and is committing herself to a gym membership. This indicates that she is moving in a forward direction. Karen could be afraid of the stigma that can be attached ...

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Abstract Mental health issues are mostly related to the problems such as depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, mood disorder, psychotic disorders, and personality disorders. They may develop as a result of several factors such as family factors, biological factors, and social factors. Patients of these disorders and their family members require an elevated level of education to deal with these problems. Therefore, it is important to improve the patient education materials that would help in conveying as much essential information to the patients and their family members as possible. In this regard, patients’ education materials can ...

Website: http://www.adaa.org/understanding-anxiety This website as titled “Understanding the Facts of Anxiety Disorders and Depression is the First Step”, is informative and provides a comprehensive review of anxiety along with links to various videos and further facts about the disorder. The site also provides links in Spanish. The site has subheadings including Anxiety helps us get out of harm’s way and prepare for important events, and it warns us when we need to tack actions, Facts and Statistics, Videos, Everyday anxiety or an anxiety disorder and Got Anxiety. Anxiety helps us get out of harm’s way and prepare ...

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In the field of social and psychological research, the development of research tools to measure phenomena by attributing quantitative values to them and developing them into continuous variables is a crucial part of data collection and understanding of the phenomena. The reliability and validity of the measuring instruments thus developed is of utmost importance in establishing the value and capability of the constructs. We all can relate to our personal or friends and peers’ childhood experiences of anxiety as a child. The children are more vulnerable as a result of anxiety situations as they have little or no idea ...

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In our everyday life, we experience stress at every corner. Instances like losing a loved one, losing a job or even divorce can make an individual feel sad, lonely, scared, nervous or anxious. It is our normal response to such stimuli, and they are usually accompanied by physiological changes in our body systems. According to the diagnostic and statistical manual (DSM) of mental disorders, mental illness have been categorized into several groups. DSM-IV used axes to categorize mental disorders into five axes. The first axis included all the psychological diagnostic categories except for the mental retardation and personality disorder. ...

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According to Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine, around 45 million children in the United States play in an organized sport. This could have been a good figure; however, by the time these children reach 15 years old, 80 percent of them quit (Atkinson). There are many possible reasons why these children decide to stop participating in sports. One of these is the wrong perspective that parents hold about sports. For instance, there are parents who believe that winning is the main goal of sports (Atkinson). When their children do not succeed, they will either tell them ...

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Abstract Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that is associated with serious kind of traumatic events and can result in the development of suicidal thoughts. The problem of PTSD can develop in any person, but veterans have more chances of getting this disorder. Moreover, veterans may require more effective ways of treating the disorder as cognitive behavioral therapy, Prolonged Exposure, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction are unable to give required results. Therefore, spiritual and religious ways of living a life are considered for treating the patients of PTSD, who have developed the problem as a ...

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There were several tests made to test the patient’s neuropsychological and personality state. And there are several moments that may look like a situational stress reaction. Since, there were several aspects in the test that make to stop and think. Actually, in the given case stress in not a diagnoses, it may be one of the reasons of some possible disorders. For example, although the patient has average superior level of Perceptual Reasoning (Lichtenberger & Kaufman, 2013), she has troubles with “reading” cards of the test. Judging from the facts, listed by the patient, ...

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Often, an anxiety disorder precedes an eating disorder, which might be Anita’s case. At this point, her eating-related behaviors are moderately problematic (distorted body-image, emotional eating, a sense of lack of control during eating). Nonetheless, if not appropriately addressed, there is high likelihood that these early signs will develop into a full-blown eating disorder (bulimia nervosa / anorexia nervosa).

Possibly co-occurring: Body Dysmorphic Disorder and (mild) Substance Use Disorder (DSM-5, APA, 2013).

Primary Diagnosis Generalized Anxiety Disorder There is a strong possibility that Anita suffers from GAD. Individuals with GAD experience perpetual, chronic and most frequently unfounded worry. In some cases it disrupts work, studies, social activities. Physical symptoms include gastrointestinal ...

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

Quite often, people experience anxiety when faced with a difficult situation, and the anxiety ends once the situation is resolved. Occasional anxiety is a common phenomenon that people face especially before undertaking tasks for which they have little confidence in accomplishing. Besides, whenever confronted with the need to make important decisions, people tend to experience anxiety over the possible consequences of such decisions. In general, anxiety occurs when one is facing a difficult situation, has to make a difficult decision, or is about to carry out a task that one has no confidence in accomplishing successfully. In all these ...

Psychology Summaries

Solomon, Caren G., Murray B. Stein, and Jitender Sareen. "Generalized Anxiety Disorder." The New England journal of medicine 373.21 (2015): 2059-68. ProQuest. 7 Apr. 2016 .Retrieved fromhttp://search.proquest.com.contentproxy.phoenix.edu/docview/1735349848?pq-origsite=summon Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a condition that creates excessive worry and concern in a debilitating manner for those afflicted with the condition. “According to representative epidemiologic surveys, the estimated prevalence of generalized anxiety disorder in the general population of the United States is 3.1% in the previous year and 5.7% over a patient’s lifetime; the prevalence is approximately twice as high among women as among men” (Solomon, Stein, and ...

A phobia is a very common condition that not always needs any treatment, but when it interferes with normal daily functioning of a person, it needs to be addressed by a professional, and in this case a person should seek appropriate treatment. A phobia is a fear or anxiety that has great strength, but does not have substantial reasons behind it, as the feared object or situations does not really pose great threat to a person experiencing such fear or anxiety (Mayo Clinic, 2014). Although sometimes a phobia is perceived as simply as strong fear, it is, in fact, ...

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Since the discovery of such phenomenon as social phobia, the scientists and most of the ordinary people were confused about the distinctions between an ordinary shyness and the social anxiety problems. Fortunately, we can clearly distinguish two these notions nowadays and even help the people who suffer from them with the help of a little assessment as assessment plays an important role in determining the problem of the human being. Unfortunately, some of the researches takes the personal feature of shyness and apply a pejorative meaning to it. The others doubt that shyness has the same nature as the ...