Generalised Anxiety Disorder, or GAD, presents itself with excessive worry, even without immediate threat or cause.

Another symptom of GAD is experiencing concerns that are out of proportion for what has caused them. People with GAD, for instance, will experience anxiety when facing unfamiliar situations or places. The anxiety and its symptoms will escalate, and many may opt not to engage in a specific situation because it has become unbearable. 

GAD can cause an elevated heart rate, sweating, dry mouth, nausea, diarrhoea, dizziness, and racing thoughts. Generalised Anxiety Disorder makes it hard to do day-to-day chores that may appear trivial to others. GAD is known to cause difficulties in a person’s life, such as causing troubles in a relationship or causing problems at work owing to excessive concern.

Panic disorder is characterised by persistent and incapacitating panic attacks. Common symptoms are palpitations, tachycardia, sweating, shaking, shortness of breath or smothering, nausea, chest discomfort, lightheaded, feeling of doom and imminent death, chills or hot flushes.Furthermore, experiencing at least one panic attack per month is frequently followed by the worry of having more panic attacks regularly.

 Such stressful conditions motivate people to alter their behaviour, which often involves avoiding circumstances they feel may result in panic attacks.

If not well or having symptoms, everyone may question if they have a significant medical condition. So it is natural to be concerned about your health. Yet there is a distinction between overall health worries and more severe health anxiety.

Health anxiety is an excessive health concern that activates your anxiety. When such worries become excessive, unreasonable, and persist after doctor reassurance, testing and second opinions.

Health anxiety can affect people that indeed have health issues. Still, despite doctors’ reassurance, they do not believe the diagnosis or expect much worse outcomes than the specialists inform them.

Another scenario is when there is a severe and even a terminal condition; of course, emotions and fear are involved. Yet after the shock, the person cannot adjust to the new situation and their lives are just focused on the illness, and they may spend precious time worrying and not living.

Those who suffer from OCD have repeating unpleasant thoughts, ideas, or urges (obsessions). In addition, the person frequently engage in repetitive rituals (compulsions) to feel better. They are powerless to control them or the anguish they cause.

Obsessions are frequently extreme concerns with germs, disease, checking gas or electric appliances, locking doors, driving carefully, cleanliness and tidiness, thoughts of violence or gruesome images, or sex. Compulsions typically involve repetitive acts to prevent an obsessive worry from happening or alleviate stress. However, compulsions can also take the form to be thoughts. 

Common compulsions are, for example, constantly needing to wash, clean, check locks, ovens, etc., organise or arrange things, count, pray, and many other repeating acts.