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Excessive fear, constant worry, catastrophizing, or obsessive thinking. These fears can take over and make things seem as though they are out of control, this is the same for the constant worry. Sometimes these worries may seem irrational or they don't make sense and they may take over and cause problems with concentrating. [10]
Generalized anxiety disorder is "characterized by chronic excessive worry accompanied by three or more of the following symptoms: restlessness, fatigue, concentration problems, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance". [13] Generalized anxiety disorder is the most common anxiety disorder to affect older adults. [14]
A young girl looking worried. Worry is a category of perseverative cognition, i.e. a continuous thinking about negative events in the past or in the future. [3] As an emotion "worry" is experienced from anxiety or concern about a real or imagined issue, often personal issues such as health or finances, or external broader issues such as environmental pollution, social structure or ...
Experts call this high-functioning anxiety—when the constant hustle masks symptoms of generalized anxiety. While not an official diagnosis under the DSM-5, the classification of mental health ...
Girls were found to be much more likely to have chronic or persistent symptoms (84% versus 61% in boys). Some 1,239 children were studied (enrolled at the age of 8 in 2012) and their symptoms were ...
The DSM-IV changed the definition of excessive worry and the number of associated psychophysiological symptoms required for a diagnosis. [150] Another aspect of the diagnosis the DSM-IV clarified was what constitutes a symptom as occurring "often". [153] The DSM-IV also required difficulty controlling the worry to be diagnosed with GAD.
Psychological stress can be external and related to the environment, [3] but may also be caused by internal perceptions that cause an individual to experience anxiety or other negative emotions surrounding a situation, such as pressure, discomfort, etc., which they then deem stressful. Hans Selye (1974) proposed four variations of stress. [4]
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.