ANXIETY disorders are psycho-somatic conditions that fill the person’s mind with fear and uncertainty. Near 40 million Americans aged 18 years and above suffer from some kind of anxiety disorders in a given year. It should however be noted that anxiety or worry that can be attributed to a specific external event (such as a first date or the first time one has to speak in public) is NOT an anxiety disorder in medical parlance. These kinds of worries or anxieties last for a short while. For a worry, anxiety or fear to be clinically diagnosed as an anxiety disorder, the condition must last a minimum of six months and aggravate with the passage of time. In many cases, anxiety disorders arise in connection with one or more mental or physical ailments including abuse of alcohol of narcotic drugs.
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