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Anxiety disorders are classified as phobic disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, and stress disorders.
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Written by: Petros Skapinakis, MD, MPH, PhD, lecturer of Psychiatry in the University of Ioannina Medical School, Greece.
Eva Gerasi,postgraduate student in the department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Ioannina, Greece
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22 Jul 2008.
Latest revision:
22 Jul 2008.
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What are anxiety disorders? What types of anxiety disorders exist?
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Anxiety disorders are a category of neurotic disorders with anxiety as a prominent or the prominent symptom. They are quite common (in a recent British survey 16% of the population suffer from some kind of pathological anxiety). According to the ICD-10 (international classification of diseases - 10th edition) anxiety disorders are classified as follows:
Phobic anxiety disorder:
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Agoraphobia (with or without panic disorder)
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Social phobias
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Specific (isolated) phobias
Other anxiety disorders:
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Panic disorder
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Generalised anxiety disorder
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Mixed anxiety and depressive disorder
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Reaction to severe stress and adjustment disorders:
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