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overview of acute stress and anxiety disorder

Major depressive disorder, alcoholism and substance abuse frequently complicate panic disorder. Panic disorder also co-occurs with other specific anxiety disorders, including social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Approximately half the people with panic disorder at some point develop such severe avoidance as to warrant a separate description. Panic disorder is about twice as common among women as men. Age of onset is mostly between late adolescence and mid-adulthood, with the onset relatively uncommon past the age of 50. Typically, an early onset of panic disorder carries greater risks of chronicity and impairment. Panic disorder also occurs as a familial condition. Anxiety disorder can be holistically treated with a program called PANIC AWAYAnxiety is manifest by disturbances of mood, thinking and behaviour. Anxiety disorders are possibly the most common and frequently occurring mental disorders. They include a group of conditions that share extreme anxiety as the principal disturbance of mood or emotional tone. Anxiety, which may be understood as the pathological counterpart of normal fear, is manifest by disturbances of mood, as well as of thinking, behavior and physiological activity. Included in this category are panic disorder, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobia, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorders, acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. PANIC DISORDER When a person has experienced at least two unexpected panic attacks, develops persistent concern or worries about having further attacks or changes his or her behavior to avoid such attacks, he is diagnosed with panic disorder. Whereas the number and severity of the attacks varies widely, concern and avoidance behavior are essential features. The diagnosis is inapplicable, however, when the attacks are caused by drugs or medication or by another disorder, such as hyperthyroidism. Anxiety disorder ca