Sometimes people can feel anxious about their everyday lives and certain events. There are different kinds of anxiety disorders that people can get. Panic disorders are episodes of fear that strike often and sometimes without any warning.

Some of the symptoms are shortness of breath, dizziness, chest pain, heart palpitations, fear of dying and abdominal distress. Another type of anxiety disorder is post traumatic stress disorder. This disorder will give you symptoms that occur after a traumatic event like natural disasters, crashes, assault, child abuse, war, emotions, nightmares depression, anger, and flashbacks to mention a few.

If you are washing your hands constantly even though you know they are clean, or doing some other repetitive behavior that you are unable to stop then you may well be suffering from a obsessive compulsive disorder.

Phobias and anxiety often come hand in hand, you could be suffering from either a social phobia or a specific phobia. Social phobia is harder to deal with, when you have specific phobia you are phobic of one thing , spiders for example, so you avoid them. Social phobia can cause you to avoid every social situation.

Specific phobia is where you experience a fear of things that pose no danger to you. This will cause a person to avoid certain objects and situations. This can limit peoples lives in many ways. Another type of anxiety disorder is generalized anxiety disorder. This is when you have constant thoughts of worry and tension about you daily routines, life events and other activities. Even though there is no reason to expect it, you almost will always think the worst. The physical symptoms are fatigue, tension, nausea, headache, and trembling.

People with anxiety will often wait months before going to see their Dr and when they do see a Dr the first step is often medication. A mixture of therapy and medication will usually be offered as a solution by your Dr.

Antidepressants and benzodiazepines are two of the most commonly prescribed drugs for anyone who suffers from anxiety. Your Dr will try one then the other, make sure you let him know about any other medications you may be on before you start any medication.

New medications are currently under development to help treat anxiety. Two effective forms of psychotherapy used in treating anxiety disorders are behavioral therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. Behavioral therapy focuses on changing certain actions and uses some techniques to stop unwanted behaviors from happening.

In addition to the behavioral therapy techniques, cognitive behavioral therapy will teach patients how to understand and change their thinking so that they can act differently to the situations that cause anxiety to them.