Types of Anxiety

Panic Attacks:

In this case the most striking are the physical symptoms: drowning, tachycardia, dizziness, nausea, sweats… all this accompanied by intense fear of dying, losing control or going crazy. Often develops also fear power suffer, people need company continuously or fleeing situations where it would be difficult to leave or seek help. In this case disorder called agoraphobia.

Generalized Anxiety:

A disorder in which the predominant symptom is the concern (the physical symptoms of anxiety are less important for the patient). There are continuing concerns about issues of everyday life: "my son is late, certain that something has happened." There is a sense of catastrophism on facts that it is very unlikely to occur and if they did would have dramatic consequences and much lower than they expected. These are disorders that are often become chronic because these people do not usually see a specialist.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder:

Obsessive symptoms (impulses intrusive thoughts or images) that the people who suffer feel disgusting, senseless or trying by all means to reject, to ensure that the anxiety caused by the decrease anxiety, compulsive behaviors are used (rituals such as checking, praying, cleaning…). It is one of the most disabling disorders, loss of time and generates a lot of discomfort.

There are other types of anxiety, such as specific phobias (fears concrete things like airplanes, elevators…) social phobia and post-traumatic stress disorder, although less frequently no less important.

In general all these types of discomfort and anxiety caused so much suffering in the person who suffers as those around them. They reduce performance and it becomes necessary to consult a professional.