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  2. Anxiety disorder - Wikipedia

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    It can also result from long-term (chronic) exposure to a severe stressor— [33] for example, soldiers who endure individual battles but cannot cope with continuous combat. Common symptoms include hypervigilance, flashbacks, avoidant behaviors, anxiety, anger, and depression. [34] In addition, individuals may experience sleep disturbances. [35]

  3. Safety behaviors (anxiety) - Wikipedia

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    An example of a safety behavior in social anxiety is to think of excuses to escape a potentially uncomfortable situation. [2] These safety behaviors, although useful for reducing anxiety in the short term, might become maladaptive over the long term by prolonging anxiety and fear of nonthreatening situations.

  4. List of medical symptoms - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Patients observe these symptoms and seek medical advice from healthcare professionals. Because most people are not diagnostically trained or knowledgeable, they typically describe their symptoms in layman's terms, rather than using specific medical terminology. This list is not exhaustive.

  5. Social anxiety disorder - Wikipedia

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    The fear, anxiety, or avoidance is not better explained by the symptoms of another mental disorder, such as panic disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, or autism spectrum disorder. If another medical condition (e.g., Parkinson disease, obesity, disfigurement from burns or injury) is present, the fear, anxiety, or avoidance is clearly unrelated or ...

  6. Panic disorder - Wikipedia

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    Panic disorder is a mental and behavioral disorder, [5] specifically an anxiety disorder characterized by reoccurring unexpected panic attacks. [1] Panic attacks are sudden periods of intense fear that may include palpitations, sweating, shaking, shortness of breath, numbness, or a feeling that something terrible is going to happen.

  7. Test anxiety - Wikipedia

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    Test anxiety is a combination of physiological over-arousal, tension and somatic symptoms, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that occur before or during test situations. [1] It is a psychological condition in which people experience extreme stress, anxiety, and discomfort during and/or before taking a test.

  8. Autophobia - Wikipedia

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    Autophobia signs and symptoms differ from one case to another. However, many individuals suffering from this condition exhibit a variety of common symptoms. One of the most known indications of autophobia is experiencing an intense amount of apprehension and anxiety when alone or contemplating situations where isolation from trusted others is ...

  9. Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale - Wikipedia

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    Zigmond and Snaith created this outcome measure specifically to avoid reliance on aspects of these conditions that are also common somatic symptoms of illness, for example fatigue and insomnia or hypersomnia. This, it was hoped, would create a tool for the detection of anxiety and depression in people with physical health problems.