anxiety disorder
cognitive disorder with an excessive, irrational dread of everyday situations
AI overview
An anxiety disorder is a condition where someone experiences excessive, irrational fear or dread about everyday situations that most people handle without worry. It matters because these intense feelings can significantly interfere with a person's daily life, relationships, and ability to function normally.
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Research
230,949 papers- Illness Anxiety Disorder: A Review of the Current Research and Future Directions.Current psychiatry reports · 2024
- Generalised anxiety disorder.Lancet (London, England) · 2006
- Biological markers of generalized anxiety disorder.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2017
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Revisited.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2020
- The history of generalized anxiety disorder as a diagnostic category.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2017
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Article
Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by significant and uncontrollable feelings of anxiety and fear such that a person's social, occupational, and personal functions are significantly impaired. Anxiety may cause physical and cognitive symptoms, such as a sense of impending doom, restlessness, irritability, easy fatigue, difficulty concentrating, increased heart rate, chest pain, abdominal pain, and a variety of other symptoms that vary based on the individual.
In casual discourse, the words anxiety and fear are often used interchangeably. In clinical usage, they have distinct meanings; anxiety is clinically defined as an unpleasant emotional state for which the cause is either not readily identified or perceived to be uncontrollable or unavoidable, whereas fear is clinically defined as an emotional and physiological response to a recognized external threat. The umbrella term 'anxiety disorder' refers to a number of specific disorders that include fears (phobias) and/or anxiety symptoms.