• Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

  • ​The most common type of anxiety and its difficult to find the cause of why it is occurring. 

  • Having excessive anxiety or worry about something that occurred in life, or it could be about a specific object that means great value to them.

  • Causes significant problems in many areas of daily life 

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• Social Anxiety Disorder ​

  • One may start to blush, cry, looking at the ground while they speak with a trembling voice or start to sweat due to fear.  

  • Stressful life events and trauma during childhood can influence the development of social anxiety problems

  • Fear of social situations that involve interaction with other people

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• Panic disorder 

  • Recurrent unexpected panic attacks

    • Panic attacks are sudden periods of intense fear that come on quickly and could reach their peak within minutes

  • Constantly worried about the next attack and trying to find ways to prevent one from happening 

  • Once an attack occurs one may shake, they would be confused, dizziness, troubling breathing, and nausea. 

  • Panic attack escalate quickly and the most severe symptoms occur with in the first ten minutes but can last up to a few hours

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• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) 

  • When a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts and/or behaviors that he or she feels the urge to repeat over and over

  • They are able to recognize that what they are doing doesn’t make sense but they may not realize that their behavior is out of the ordinary

  • Over time the symptoms get more severe, which includes social isolation, hypervigilance, and compulsive behaviors. 

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•  Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) 

  • A mental health condition that's triggered by a terrifying event, which is either experiencing it or witnessing it

  •  Last months or years, with triggers that can bring back memories of the trauma,  intense emotional and physical reactions

  • Some common symptoms include flashbacks, the lack of trust in others, nightmares, difficulty sleeping, and anger. 

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• Agoraphobia

  • Extreme fear of entering open or crowded places, of leaving one's own home, or of being in places from which escape is difficult

  • Develops after one or more panic attacks 

  • The main symptom is avoiding a location of where you may panic 

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• Selective Mutism 

  • Only in children 

  • Children are unable to speak and communicate effectively in select social settings

  • Only communicate in areas where they feel comfortable 

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• Separation Anxiety Disorder

  •  Only in children 

  • They become excessively anxious when separated from parents

  • The only thing they are worried about is the fear of being apart 

  • This can lead to nightmares and the fear to go to school or other locations 

  • The separation from their parent is the only thing on their mind

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• Illness Anxiety Disorder 

  • Also known as Hypochondria or Health anxiety 

  • Obsession with the idea of having a serious but undiagnosed medical condition

  • Develops during childhood

  • One may constantly visit a doctor, or change the one they currently have to get different opinions