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Anxiety Panic Disorder

According to the National Institute of Mental Health anxiety disorders affect about 40 million American adults. And certainly several millions more in other countries across the world.

While a stressful event can cause a brief anxiety experience, anxiety disorders tend to be a chronic condition that lasts for months or years and gets worse if not treated.

How do you know if you're suffering from anxiety panic disorder?

The formal diagnosis requires that someone presents troublesome symptoms for a period of at least six months. As for panic disorder, “four attacks within four weeks or one or more attacks followed by at least a month of persistent fear of having another attack”.

There are many different types of anxiety disorders and each of them presents different symptoms but all revolve around irrational, excessive fear.

Here's a few questions you can ask yourself to determine if you are suffering from an anxiety panic disorder ( Answer “yes” only if you've had these feelings for a period of two weeks or more) :


* Do you feel afraid of leaving your home, going out?

* Have you been avoiding social situations because of fear?

* Do you have a fear of losing control or going crazy?

* Do you have fear of certain objects?

* Do you have difficulty concentrating?

* Have you experienced shortness of breath, shaking or heart palpitation while at rest?

* Do you have recurrent thoughts or images that refuse to go away, like an upsetting event from the past?

* Do you feel compelled to perform certain activities repeatedly?

If you answered yes to more than four of these questions you may be suffering from an anxiety panic disorder and you should consider seeing your family doctor.

He can determine whether the symptoms that alarm you are due to an anxiety disorder, another medical condition, or both.

Contributed by justme on March 19, 2008, at 5:38 PM UTC.

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