There are mainly six types of anxiety disorders. They include;
A. Generalised Anxiety Disorders(GAD)
B. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
(OCD)
C. Panic Disorders
D. Post-traumatic Stress Disorders
(PTSD)
E. Phobias
F. Medicated-induced anxiety disorders
❎ GENERALISED ANXIETY DISORDERS
It is abbreviated to GAD. A person is said to have GAD when they frequently worry excessively over different things.
Such a person excessively worries about wealth, health, work, and family.
To diagnose someone with GAD means the person has difficulty controlling worry almost every day, which means it has to last for over six months.
Such a person should be known to have three or more symptoms of anxiety.
Note that GAD has no known causes. But some factors play a huge role. Factors like biological factors, family background, and life experience.
❎ OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDERS
It is abbreviated to OCD. It is a mental condition that causes an urge to do things repeatedly in an unhealthy manner. This term is “compulsion.”
OCD can also be defined as a mental illness that causes repeated unwanted thoughts or sensations. This term is called “obsession.”
There is a difference between obsession and compulsion, but there are some people with OCD that have both.
Obsessions are major thoughts and examples of such thoughts are:
• Frequently observing your breathing,
• Frequently noticing how your heart beats
Compulsion is about doing something repeatedly in an unhealthy manner.
Some examples of these compulsive habits are:
• Needing to count and check things over and over again,
• Needing to arrange things in a certain manner repeatedly
• Fear of touching things that are dirty
• Cleaning aggressively over and over again.
People with OCD do not do these things because they enjoy them; they do these things because they can’t stop.
If they choose to stop, they feel sad or can be anxious.
As a human, it is okay to do things repeatedly. It becomes an obsession or compulsion when it is done in an unhealthy manner.
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