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Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders are psychological disorders that occur more often, its symptoms include vegetative hyper arousal, which is manifested by rapid pulse, tachypnea, mydriasis, choking, trembling, feeling of loss of control or knowledge, sweating, muscle stiffness, muscle weakness, insomnia, restlessness, difficulties in communication, and obsessive negative thoughts, etc.

Its manifestations include three different ways: physiological, cognitive and behavioral. These three ways, or ways to express anxiety, influence into each other.

Within this group of disorders, the most common are panic disorder, phobias and posttraumatic stress:

Panic disorder and agoraphobia .- It is an anxiety disorder characterized by the appearance of unexpected and repeated episodes of intense fear accompanied by a series of physical symptoms such as chest pain, tachycardia, shortness of breath, dizziness, gastric distress or discomfort.
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