Anxiety disorder
Whether spider phobia or fear of crowds: Depending on the form and characteristics an anxiety disorder can significantly affect the lives - sometimes so much so that you can no longer work or leave the house. Using an appropriate therapy can be an anxiety disorder, however well treated in many cases.
If fear governs their lives, therapeutic help is necessary.
Everyone knows the feeling of fear. This emotion is a completely natural reaction to a possible danger. Fear is useful because it keeps us in circumstances of danger, by avoiding such a situation or flee. The protective alarm of fear has always been (survival) is important: If our ancestors did at the sight of a wild animal out of fear fled, they would have probably lost their lives. And even today keeps us often related to fear to take too much risk.
If you go to a situation or an object with a strong fear response, however inadequate, may be an anxiety disorder to develop. Among anxiety disorders is a group of diseases and physical disorders are characterized by emotional, which in a normal fear response occur. In contrast to "normal anxiety" but there is no objective reason for this reaction. Spin until, for example, the fear in this country is objectively unfounded, because a spider represents danger as no. People with a spider phobia, however, react with physical symptoms, certain feelings, thoughts and behaviors in the sight of a spider that really are not appropriate.
An anxiety disorder has many faces: the case of a panic disorder affected suffer from panic attacks that occur without external cause. Phobias are fears, however, certain hazardous release caused by. Examples of phobias are agoraphobia, claustrophobia (fear of closed spaces or in front), social phobia and fear of flying. In a generalized anxiety disorder is a long-term, indefinite fear that certain situations or objects is not limited. If an anxiety disorder untreated, this can mean that the fear growing ever wider.