Anxiety and Panic Disorders

  • State if uneasiness characterized by apprehension and worry about possible events

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD): When you worry constantly and cannot control it

  • Usually worrying on most days and for at least 6 months

  • Symptoms:

    • Troubling falling or staying asleep

    • Trembling

    • Twitching

    • Tense muscles

    • HA

    • Grouchiness

    • Sweating

    • Trouble breathing

    • Nausea

    • Lump in throat

Phobias: An overwhelming and debilitating fear of an object, place, situation, feeling, or animal. They’re more pronounced than fears.

  • Symptoms:

    • Sweating

    • Trembling

    • Hot flushes or chills

    • SOB

    • Choking sensation

    • Tachycardia

    • Pain or tightness in the chest

    • Sensation of butterflies in the stomach

Social Anxiety Disorder: An intense, persistent fear of being watched or judged by others.

  • Symptoms:

    • Blush, sweat, or tremble

    • Tachycardia

    • Feeling of mind going blank or sick to their stomach

    • Rigid body posture

    • Difficulty making eye contact

    • Feel self conscious

    • Avoiding places where there are other people

Panic Attacks: A brief episode of intense anxiety, which causes the physical sensations of fear.

  • Symptoms:

    • Sense of impending doom or danger

    • Fear of loss of control or death

    • Tachycardia

    • Sweating

    • Trembling or shaking

    • SOB

    • Chills

    • Hot flashes

    • Nasuea

    • Abdominal cramping

    • Chest pain

Separation Anxiety: A mental health condition that causes fear and anxiety centered on separation from a close attachment figure.

  • Symptoms:

    • Feeling distressed when apart from an attachment figure or anticipating separation

    • Worry something bad will happen to an attachment figure

    • Refuse to leave home or go places

    • Fear being alone without an attachment figure nearby

    • Refuse to go to sleep without attachment figure

    • Have physical symptoms when apart from an attachment figure or anticipating separation

Treat with Citalopram (Celexa), Duloxetine (Cymbalta), Escitalopram (Lexapro), Paroxetine (Paxil), Sertraline (Zoloft), Velafaxine (Effexor), Benzodiazepines, Buspirone (Buspar), and Hydroxyzine Pamoate (Vistaril)