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Health Encyclopedia: Anxiety Disorders Introduction

Introduction


Fear and stress reactions are essential for human survival. They enable people to pursue important goals and to respond appropriately to danger. In a healthy individual, the stress response (fight, fright, or flight) is provoked by a genuine threat or challenge and is used as a spur for appropriate action.

An anxiety disorder, however, involves an excessive or inappropriate state of arousal characterized by feelings of apprehension, uncertainty, or fear. The word is derived from the L...

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Health Guide

Anxiety Disorders: Causes
...Breathing Functions. Many people, including children, with anxiety disorders are very sensitive to the effects of carbon dioxide (CO2). These people generally have higher than normal levels of... Read more »
Anxiety Disorders: Risk Factors
...lived in the U.S., the greater was their risk for psychiatric problems. Traditional Mexican cultural effects and social ties, appear to protect recently arrived immigrants from mental illness,... Read more »
Eating Disorders: Risk Factors
Many factors contribute to the risk of developing an eating disorder.AgeDating disorders occur most often in adolescents and young adults. However, new research finds that they are... Read more »
Anxiety Disorders: Medications
...initial treatment. They are proving to be effective, nonaddictive, and to have relatively minor side effects.Many standard antidepressants take 2 - 4 weeks, and sometimes up to 12 weeks, before... Read more »
Anxiety Disorders: Treatment
Anxiety disorders require treatment. Simply trying to talk oneself out of anxiety is as futile as trying to talk oneself out of a heart or stomach problem. Most anxiety disorders, especially... Read more »

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