What is an Anxiety Disorder? The term Anxiety disorder is really
a general term for a group of disorders that share a variety of
anxiety related conditions. All of the anxiety disorders have
one symptom in common, an excessive worry or fear about
something that would not usually bother most people. The
symptoms of anxiety are both psychological and physical in
nature. Each individual anxiety disorder refers to a group of
anxiety symptoms and specific anxiety triggers. Panic Disorder
for example will cause an increased heart-rate, breathing
difficulties and often accompanied by a sense of dread and being
out of control. In many respects the anxiety disorder categories
are artificial divisions, as the underlying mechanism of the
anxiety at a physiological and neurological level is similar
between the different anxiety disorders, and they only really
differs in terms of the thought processes that cause and
maintain the anxiety. Due to the somewhat artificial nature of
the anxiety disorder categories, people will