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Anxiety Disorders

Characterized by excessive fear and/or anxiety with related disturbances to behavior.

Specific Phobia

Dysfunctional fear of a specific object or situation.

Acrophobia

Fear of heights.

Arachnophobia

Fear of spiders.

Agoraphobia

Fear of specific social situations, such as being in a crowd or being in an enclosed public space like a theater, that might cause feelings of panic or being trapped, helpless, or embarrassed.

Panic Disorder

Characterized by frequent panic attacks, which are relatively brief but unexpected overwhelming cognitive and physical symptoms.

Panic Attack

Relatively brief but unexpected overwhelming cognitive and physical symptoms of anxiety, such as chest pain, difficulty breathing, heart palpitations, sweating, and dizziness.

Ataque de Nervios

Culture-bound disorder identified mainly in people of Caribbean or Iberian descent, characterized by dizziness, difficulty breathing, accelerated heart rate, screaming, crying, aggression, and/or dissociative episodes.

Social Anxiety Disorder

An intense fear of being watched or judged by others, different from but sometimes overlapping with agoraphobia.

Taijin Kyofusho

Culture-bound anxiety disorder experienced mainly by Japanese people where fear focuses on causing offense through bodily functions or appearance.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Excessive, constant, and long-lasting anxiety not focused on any particular object, characterized by agitation, difficulty sleeping, worry, and tension.

Obsessions

Unwanted thoughts that are characteristic of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders.

Compulsions

Unwanted, often repetitive behaviors intended to deal with obsessive thoughts.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Disorder where common obsessions include fear of dirt/germs and desire for order, while compulsions can include excessive hand-washing and counting.

Hoarding Disorder

Difficulty parting with possessions, leading to clutter that interferes with normal functioning and causes distress.

Dissociative Disorders

Characterized by dissociations from consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior.

Dissociative Amnesia

Sudden loss of memory, including personal identity, with no physiological cause.

Fugue

A state where a person leaves their familiar environment often associated with dissociative amnesia.

Dissociative Identity Disorder

A disorder where a person reports having more than one identity, which may or may not be aware of each other.