Question

Many of the symptoms in anxiety and related disorders overlap with experiences most people have. What features differentiate someone with a disorder versus someone without?

Answer 1

The features that differentiate someone with a disorder versus someone without are;

• Worrying or being anxious is normal in difficult situations, and is helpful to plan and face such situations. But, when this worrying and being anxious is excessive, when it interferes with normal life, makes the sufferer unable to function to their best ability, and is accompanied with physical symptoms as excessive fatigue, muscle tension, increased heart beat, disturbed sleep pattern and difficulty in concentrating is not normal
• Being excessively threatened or scared over matters that are actually not dangerous, or when there is no threat at all.
• Being anxious and impulsive all the time.
• Behaving compulsively to get rid of obsessive thoughts.
• Avoiding social situations because it causes excessive anxiety and panic to face such situations.