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Anxiety Disorders Overview

Generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by prolonged and excessive unspecific anxiety or anxiety focused on certain themes like health or work. It has a lifetime prevalence of 5-10% and is more common in females and the elderly population. Panic disorder involves recurrent unexpected panic attacks without triggers and has a lifetime prevalence of around 5% most common in people aged 26-34. Social anxiety disorder causes pronounced anxiety in social situations and has a lifetime prevalence of 5-10% most common in adolescence and early adulthood. Specific phobias involve intense fears of specific situations or objects and have a lifetime prevalence of 5-10% with average onset depending on the specific phobia.

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Anxiety Disorders Overview

Generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by prolonged and excessive unspecific anxiety or anxiety focused on certain themes like health or work. It has a lifetime prevalence of 5-10% and is more common in females and the elderly population. Panic disorder involves recurrent unexpected panic attacks without triggers and has a lifetime prevalence of around 5% most common in people aged 26-34. Social anxiety disorder causes pronounced anxiety in social situations and has a lifetime prevalence of 5-10% most common in adolescence and early adulthood. Specific phobias involve intense fears of specific situations or objects and have a lifetime prevalence of 5-10% with average onset depending on the specific phobia.

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Anxiety Disorder

Etiology
Generalized anxiety disorder

• Definition: prolonged and excessive anxiety that is either unspecific


or revolves around certain themes (e.g., health, work); not focused
on a single specific fear

• Epidemiology
• Most common anxiety disorder among the elderly population
• Lifetime prevalence: 5–10%
• ♀ > ♂(2:1)
Treatment
Panic disorder
• Definition: recurrent spontaneous and unexpected panic attacks that
often occur without a known trigger

• Epidemiology
• Lifetime prevalence: approx. 5% of the population
• Most common in patients aged 26–34 years
• ♀ > ♂ (2:1)
Treatment
Social anxiety disorder
• Definition: pronounced anxiety lasting ≥ 6 months of social
situations that might involve scrutiny by others

• Epidemiology
• One of the most common mental disorders
• Lifetime prevalence: approx. 5–10% of the population
• Peak incidence: adolescence and early adulthood
• ♀ > ♂ (2:1)
Symptoms
Treatment
Specific phobias
• Definition: persistent and intense fears of one or more specific situations
or objects (phobic stimuli); always occurs during encounters with the
phobic stimulus but may already surge in anticipation of an encounter

• Epidemiology
• Lifetime prevalence: approx. 5–10% of the population
• The average age of onset depends on the specific phobia (e.g., animal phobias more
commonly develop in early childhood).
• ♀ > ♂ (2:1)
Treatment
• First-line: CBT

• Alternative: benzodiazepine or SSRIs


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