ANXIETY DISORDERS
These include disorders that share features of excessive fear and anxiety and related behavioral disturbances.
 Fear-emotional response to real or perceived imminent threat.
 Anxiety-anticipation of future threat.
DISORDERS DEFINITION
Excessive fear or anxiety
SEPERATION ANXIETY concerning separation from
or attachment figure
DISORDER
Consistent failure to speak in
SELECTIVE MUTISM specific situation which there
is an expectation for
speaking
Marked by fear or anxiety
SPECIFIC PHOBIA about specific object or
situation(animal, natural
environment, blood
injection, situational, others)
NUMBER OF
CRITERIAS AGE ONSET AND COMORBIDITY SIMILIRATIES DIFFERENCES
TO LOOK DURATION
FOR
As early as preschool
4 age and may occur at highly comorbid with generalized anxiety disorder
any time during and specific phobia. In adults, common
At least 3 out of 8 childhood and more comorbidities include specific phobia,
episodes in rarely in adolescence. PTSD, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder,
Cluster A social anxiety disorder, agoraphobia,
lasting at least 4 Obsessive-compulsive disorder, and personality
weeks in children and disorders. Depressive and bipolar disorders Conditions are the reason
adolescents and are also comorbid with separation anxiety disorder in characterized by a underlying
typically 6 months or adults. high degree of avoidance is likely
more in adults. avoidance, to be different
onset and duration
The disorder
of the condition
5 is more likely to Social anxiety disorder, followed by separation
Deficits in GABA
manifest in young anxiety disorder and specific phobia. communication
causes of such
children than in delays
condition
adolescents and adults.
Difficult to manage
The duration of the
disturbance is at least 1
stressors
month (not limited to
the first month of
School).
intensity and length
The median age at Individuals with specific phobia are at increased risk impairment and
7 onset is between 7 for the development of other disorders, other symptoms
note about and 11 years, with the including other anxiety disorders, depressive and
specifiriers mean at about 10 bipolar disorders, substance related
disorders, somatic symptom and related disorders,
years.
and personality disorders (particularly
Dependent personality disorder).
Typically lasting for 6
months or more.
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SOCIAL ANXIETY about one or more social
DISORDER or SOCIAL situations in which
PHOBIA individual is exposed to
scrutiny or observed by
others
Episodic paroxysmal anxiety
PANIC DISORDER A recurrent unexpected
panic attacks- an abrupt
surge of intense fear or
discomfort
The individual
AGORAPHOBIA fears/avoid(open/enclosed
places, being in a crowd,
pubtranpo,outside of home)
because thoughts that escape
might be difficult
Excessive anxiety and worry
GENERALIZED ANXIETY about number of events or
DISORDER activities or situation
10 Individuals have an major depressive
Marked fear or age at onset between disorder, and substance use disorders, and the
anxiety about 8 and 15 years. onset of social anxiety disorder
one or more
social situations Typically lasting for 6
in which the months or more.
individual is
exposed to
possible scrutiny
by others.
4 Panic disorder is significantly comorbid with
4 or more out of The median age at numerous general medical symptoms
13 symptoms in onset for panic and conditions, including, but not limited to,
Cluster A disorder in the United dizziness, cardiac arrhythmias, hyperthyroidism,
States is 20-24 years Asthma, COPD, and irritable bowel syndrome.
At least one of
the attacks has
been followed
by 1 month (or Sudden, 10 minutes to
more) of one or 30 minutes
both in Cluster B
9 and marked may occur in specific phobias, panic disorder,
fear or anxiety childhood, but social anxiety disorder), depressive disorders
about two (or incidence peaks in (major depressive disorder), PTSD,
more) of the late adolescence and and alcohol use disorder.
following five early adulthood.
situations:
Typically lasting for 6
months or more.
6 peaks in middle age other anxiety and unipolar depressive disorders.
at least 3 or and declines across
more out of 6 the later years of life.
symptoms
present for most occurring more days
of the days than not for at least 6
required months
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