Anxiety Disorder

1. Psychotherapy
(a) Psychoanalytic Therapy
(b) Supportive psychotherapy

2. Behavior Therapy
(a) Thought Stopping
(b) Response Prevention
(c) Systematic Desensitization
(d) Modeling


3. Drugs – Benzodiazepines, Anti depressants like Clomipramine,
Antipsychotic like haloperidol

4. ECT – In the presence of severe depression with OCD.

In specific phobia the stimulus is usually circumscribed. This is an example of irrational fear of objects and also situation.

It is characterized by an irrational fear of a specific object or situation. Anticipatory anxiety leads to persistent avoidant behavior, while confrontation with avoided object or situation leads to panic attack. Gradually the phobia spreads to other objects and situations.

The disorder is diagnosed only if there is marked distress or disturbance ...

An obsession is a persistent preoccupation with a certain mental content, typically an idea or a feeling. A compulsion is an impulse to engage in some behavior experienced as irresistible. Thus in obsessive-compulsive (OCD) individuals feel compelled to think about or to carry out some action, often pointlessly ritualistic, seemingly against their own will. These individuals usually having high level of manifest anxiety realize that their behavior is irrational but cannot seem to control it. ...

This category consists of those disorders, which are temporarily related to exceptionally stressful life events (acute stress reaction and post-traumatic stress disorder).

1. Acute Stress Reaction – There is an immediate and clear temporal relationship between an exceptional stressor (e.g. death of loved one, natural catastrophe, accident, rape) and the onset of symptoms.

The symptoms are dazed condition, anxiety, depression, anger, despair, over activity or withdrawal, ...

Childhood anxiety is becoming a common problem these days as more and more cases turn up with signs of depression popping up in young children.

Many young children experience anxiety when they meet new people and shyly grip a parent or somebody else with whom they are known. Frequently, a parent can softly support them in venturing out of their 'secure zone' to have new understanding of the society and people, while a number of children tearfully oppose anything or anyone whom they ...