Anxiety disorder is a common prevailing mental disorder in our society. It is found more frequently in women as compared with men but it is not restricted to a particular age group or gender – it may occur even in kids too. Defining Anxiety Anxiety can be defined as a state of being anxious, tensed and worried towards threatening situations. Nonetheless, it is quite normal, to get worried about threatening situations. However, when these worries are intense enough to intervene your normal life, then they cause the anxiety disorder also with an anxiety or stress test. For example, if a dog bites a girl. Now, whenever she sees the dog, she will be frightened and might run away. However, if the girl will start sweating and start having the feeling of choking, nausea, diarrhea, when she sees the dog, then she would have been having anxiety disorder. Moreover, she would require proper psychiatric treatment to cure it. Anxiety disorders are divided into four sub categories: 1)    Phobia 2)    Generalized anxiety disorder 3)    Panic disorder 4)    Obsessive compulsive disorder All these kinds are the subcategories of anxiety disorders and the effects of anxiety on your mood. However, anxiety is the most common prevailing and prominent aspect of all these categories. All these anxiety disorders are maladaptive and set patterns of individuals. These anxiety attacks vary from person to person and time to time depending upon the circumstances in which you are living in and your mental capabilities to accept and bear ...

It is considered normal to undergo some nervousness, edginess and tension prior to taking an examination, giving an interview or doing something important. However, when such tenseness prevails over a period; gets in the way of your routine activities; obstructs your sleep and makes you feel agitated then, it is not normal. This state is generally known as ‘anxiety.’ Types of Anxiety Anxiety is normally experienced when things do not go as planned. When you anticipate something but the result is opposite than that of your expectations, you are bound to feel some stress and tension. But when this stress continues to exist, it gets transformed into anxiety. One fact about anxiety, mood disorder is that those who suffer from it gradually lose control over their worries and are always in a state of worry and fear. Anxiety is of numerous types. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic Disorder, Social Phobia also known as Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are some broad types of stress or anxiety. Generalized Anxiety Disorder GAD is experienced when anxiety extends over long periods of time and when you agonize over petty issues for no specific reason. People who undergo this anxiety are concerned about their work, health, family and are unable to control their tensions. OCD sufferers suffer from the need to check or do some particular thing over and over again. For e.g. some victims of OCD wash their hands numerous times to make sure they’re ...