Anxiety Therapy

Obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, can be a very destructive anxiety disorder.

• Obsessions:Obsessions are thought based. They’re an intrusive, uncontrollable preoccupation with a specific thought, usually a negative or fearful thought, that a person simply cannot shake no matter how hard they try.
• Compulsions:Compulsions are behavior based. They’re a “need” to perform an action or activity in response to an obsession, often in a very specific way, and as hard as the person tries, they can’t stop themselves from performing the behavior. These actions continue for more than one hour a day.

People with panic disorder have recurrent unexpected panic attacks, which are sudden periods of intense fear that may include palpitations, pounding heart, or accelerated heart rate; sweating; trembling or shaking; sensations of shortness of breath, smothering, or choking; and feeling of impending doom.

Panic disorder symptoms include:

• Sudden and repeated attacks of intense fear
• Feelings of being out of control during a panic attack
• Intense worries about when the next attack will happen
• Fear or avoidance of places where panic attacks have occurred in the past

PTSD affects people both psychologically and physically. In most cases, the person with PTSD is the one that experienced the traumatic event, but it’s possible to get PTSD by simply witnessing an event or injury, or even simply discovering that someone close to you dealt with a traumatic event.

Symptoms include:

• Nightmares/Flashbacks
• Depression/Irritability
• Avoidance of Triggers
• Social Withdrawal
• Hyper Vigilance

People with social anxiety disorder (sometimes called“social phobia”) have a marked fear of social or performance situations in which they expect to feel embarrassed, judged, rejected, or fearful of offending others.

Social anxiety disorder symptoms include:

• Being very afraid that other people will judge them
• Worrying for days or weeks before an event where other people will be
• Staying away from places where there are other people
• Having a hard time making friends and keeping friends

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