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Anxiety Disorders

Most of us feel anxious and tense in the face of threatening or stressful situations.  Such feelings are normal reactions to stress.  Anxiety is considered abnormal only when it occurs in situations that most people can handle with little difficulty.  Anxiety disorders include a group of disorders in which anxiety either is the main symptom (generalized anxiety and panic disorders) or is experienced when the individual attempts to control certain maladaptive behaviors (phobic and obsessive-compulsive disorders).  (Post-traumatic stress disorder, which involves anxiety following a traumatic even, was discussed in (Chapter 14).  The following passage describes a person suffering from an anxiety disorder:

Hazel was walking down a street near her home one day when she suddenly felt flooded with intense and frightening physical symptoms.  Her whole body tightened up, she began sweating and her heart was racing, and she felt dizzy and disoriented.  She thought, “I must be having a heart attack! I can’t stand this!  Something terrible is happening!  I’m going to die.”  Hazel just stood frozen in the middle of the street until an onlooker stopped to help her.

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