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Definitions of Anxiety Disorder and Conditions for Every Age Bracket
from:Different authorities may give varying definitions of anxiety disorder. However, among them we can find a universal theme that will lead us to a more solid definition of what truly is an anxiety disorder.
Anxiety disorder is a chronic condition characterized by extreme anxiety that creates a disturbance in the mood, behavior, thought, and psychological and physiological activities of the person affected. Anxiety disorder in general displays physical symptoms that are precursors to much greater changes in the brain of the individual having the disorder. These typically advance progressively and are often not given proper treatment due to the reason that the people surrounding the person and the sufferer himself often misconceive the physical manifestations of the condition. This is the reason why people with anxiety disorder are often only treated when they have gone to more serious levels.
Anxiety disorder usually affects adults and is significantly observed during teenage years. However, recent discoveries show a consensus of the possibility that adult manifestations of anxiety disorder are the products of subtle physiological and psychological disorders during childhood.
Anxiety disorder comes in different forms. However, they are usually characterized by anxiousness over a thing, an event or people that may cause extreme anxiety for the person. Commonly, these things are their reasons why they avoid social contact (as in the case of agoraphobia), and they repeatedly do activities that are way beyond the normal performance of a person not subject to the condition (like with obsessive-compulsive disorder).
There are types of anxiety disorder that are more prevalent in an age bracket and may only manifest minimally in other ages. Take for instance the case of separation anxiety disorder. More often than not, the affected age bracket for these conditions are the children.
At first, the effects of separation anxiety disorder are a welcomed plus for parents due to significant concern displayed by the child. However, when the symptoms continue to aggravate, parents may likely develop annoyance toward their child. Rightfully (or unrightfully) enough, these children will make necessary efforts to check their parents every once in a while for their safety (often even during the midnight). For more serious cases, the child would restrict himself from activities that would likely separate him from his major attachment figure or the person from which his separation anxiety disorder is focused.
Another anxiety disorder that is more prevalent in a single age bracket is the social phobia. Usually, these come from young people who are on the process of puberty. However, this developmental process is not the sole reason why they develop the disorder. Research shows that social phobia is rooted from childhood experiences. They are only significantly observed during teenage years because of the heightened social consciousness that goes along with the process.
For the majority of anxiety disorders however, they may manifest during adulthood. Take for example the following types:
Agoraphobia is not "fear of open spaces". Actually, if we are to closely examine, we may arrive to the fact that the term itself came from two Greek words which meant, "fear of the marketplace" in itself not an open space. By definition, agoraphobia is the heightened fear over spaces or events where immediate escape is not possible or when the agoraphobic feels no security.
In the end, anxiety disorder cannot be singularly contained into a common definition because it is in itself a broad terminology for the general disorders that cover heightened sensations of anxiety and fear.
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