Suffering from Anxiety?

General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is when an individual has felt worried and anxious for more than six months. Individuals with GAD worry excessively about everyday issues and have difficulty controlling their worry. GAD can prevent an individual from working or taking part in day-to-day activities.

General Anxiety Disorder symptoms can be both mental and physical. Mental symptoms can include excessive worry, difficulty concentrating, catastrophising , or overthinking, indecision or feelings of dread or fear. Physical symptoms can include restlessness, insomnia, fatigue, sweating, nausea, palpitations, dry mouth, feeling cold or having cold chills, shivering, or shaking.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a condition that causes an individual to have obsessive thoughts or urges. These thoughts are intrusive and can often be disturbing or cause distress, impacting a person’s ability to conduct their daily lives.

Individuals with OCD are unable to control these thoughts and often attempt to alleviate distress through obsessive or repetitive behaviors known as compulsions.

Obsessions can include fears of harm coming to the self or loved one, worries about health and illness, fears of germs, obsession with cleanliness, fear of speaking inappropriately, obsessive thoughts that can sometimes be violent or sexual, obsession with order. Compulsions can include carrying out actions in a specific way or pattern, keeping objects in line/orderly, excessive showering, hand washing, or cleaning, house cleaning, hoarding, repeatedly checking electronics are switched off or doors are locked, “tapping rituals” such as tapping in a certain way in order for things to be “correct”.

Social Phobia Disorder is a condition which causes excessive worry in individuals in relation to social situations and relationships. This worry causes self-consciousness and is often related to a fear of being judged or perceived in a negative light.

Social Phobia Disorder can prevent individuals from meeting new people or taking part in social activities and from performing everyday activities such as taking phone calls or eating in public, for example.

Social Phobia Disorder symptoms can include fear of humiliating oneself, fear of being judged negatively, fear of performing or speaking in front of people, fear of meeting new people or being in social situations, the urge to leave social situations, sweating, palpitation, nausea, difficulty breathing and dry mouth.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition caused as a result of experiencing a traumatic event or events. An individual with PTSD may experience flashbacks, nightmares, mental health problems such as depression and anxiety, as well as feeling ‘detached’ from the world and others in it.

The condition can happen immediately after an event or it can sometimes appear months after the experience, known as Delayed-Onset PTSD.

PTSD symptoms can be severe and develop following a traumatic experience or set of distressing events or circumstances. These symptoms can prevent people from carrying out their normal lives. Symptoms can include flashbacks and nightmares, reliving the event or experience, mental health problems such as depression and anxiety, feeling “cut off” or detached from the world and loved ones, aggressive behaviors, alertness, easily startled.