Anxiety Disorders Associated With Women: The Kinds of Anxiety Disorders
By: James S.
Submitted: 2008-10-10 16:29:35 | Word Count: 518
Anxiety disorders are psychiatric disorders that affects the life of a person adversely. The anxiety disorders generally lead to deterioration of the overall health.
Women and anxiety are inseparable as anxiety is all about the emotional effect that is accompanied by the physiological sensations. It is caused due to emotions experienced over different issues such as family problems, financial issues as well as concerns about children.
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It is generally characterized by doubts, worries as well as painful awareness. The heightened emotions can even lead to heart palpitations, dizziness, sweating, gastrointestinal upsets, trembling, restlessness and increased urination among others.
Kinds of anxiety disorders
Anxiety disorders in women are one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders and influence the quality of their life adversely. These disorders lead to expensive and frequent medical check ups. They can also cause deterioration of the overall health. The detection of anxiety disorder is done when challenges of the everyday living become overwhelming. Below are listed some of them:
Generalized disorder:
Also known as GAD, is more common among women than among men and children. This form of anxiety disorder includes non stop worrying about different issues, aches as well as pains including trembling, headaches, and muscle tension. Apart from this, constant fatigue, grouchiness and sleep disorders are some of the symptoms of this problem.
Obsessive compulsive disorder:
In this anxiety disorder, the person suffers from frequently recurring thoughts known as obsessions. Compulsive components of this form of anxiety disorder also include cyclical actions known as compulsions. These are attempts to control the obsessive thought process. Women having OCD tend to hurt themselves and others and develop strange ideas about sexual activity or religion, among other issues.
Panic disorder:
Panic disorder is generally present in those women who have uncontrollable intense feelings of panic and fear known as panic attacks. Other symptoms linked with this anxiety disorder are chest pain, breathing difficulty, rapid heart beat, hot flashes and tingling feelings.
This disorder is normally seen between the age group of 18 and 24 years. There is no reason for these panic attacks. They can happen at any point of time. Through studies and researches it has been found that panic attacks usually occur at places where the patient has already faced panic attacks in the past.
Phobia:
This is another common kind of abnormal fear wherein a person reacts unusually to a particular element. In other words, a person is afraid of things like fire, height, water, insects, loneliness, darkness and flying just to name a few. Some people also develop social phobia such as fear of embarrassment among others. The common symptoms include sleep disorders, nightmares, feeling of aloofness, irritability, anxiety, numbness and startled reactions.
There is cognitive behavioral therapy done in order to treat these anxiety disorders that focuses upon changing behavioral, emotional and cognitive patterns. The therapists attempt to the reconditioning of thought process of the women so that they can think healthy and integrate the relaxation techniques to alter their mood swings to a large extent.
It is a proven theory and has helped in the treatment of numerous patients across the globe.
