The above answers are really useful, I have little to add but have an excuse to use the DSM that I recently acquired to answer this question.
The DSM 5 (Pg. 189) remarks that "anxiety disorders include disorders that share features of excessive fear and anxiety and related behavioural distrubances".
Some of the disorders (some rather surprising) are outlined as such:
Separation anxiety disorder
Selective mutism
Specific phobia
*Animal
*Enviornment
4. Social anxiety disorder
5. Panic disorder
As well as others including substance/medication-induced anxiety.
Treatment plans will vary, but in phobias exposure therapy is sometimes used to reasonable success as well as cognitive therapy programs like CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) which targets mistaken thought processes to aid the patient.
The above answers are really useful, I have little to add but have an excuse to use the DSM that I recently acquired to answer this question.
The DSM 5 (Pg. 189) remarks that "anxiety disorders include disorders that share features of excessive fear and anxiety and related behavioural distrubances".
Some of the disorders (some rather surprising) are outlined as such:
Separation anxiety disorder
Selective mutism
Specific phobia
*Animal
*Enviornment
4. Social anxiety disorder
5. Panic disorder
As well as others including substance/medication-induced anxiety.
Treatment plans will vary, but in phobias exposure therapy is sometimes used to reasonable success as well as cognitive therapy programs like CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) which targets mistaken thought processes to aid the patient.