social anxiety

There are a few major ways that anxiety can impact a relationship. When you are experiencing feelings of anxiety, you may respond by being either too dependent or too avoidant. Both responses can take a toll on how you interact and communicate with others. Individuals suffering from anxiety may find themselves prone to: Overthinking Planning

The NHS has to say the following about panic attacks, which are an intense and heightened form of an anxiety attack and often also include somatic symptoms: “Although panic attacks are frightening, they’re not dangerous. An attack will not cause you any physical harm, and it’s unlikely you’ll be admitted to hospital if you have

No. These two conditions are very different, although many people can have both. Broadly speaking, anxiety describes an anxious emotional state while depression describes a mood state. There are different treatments for both. However, because they quite often occur simultaneously, a combined treatment approach is used or, in the case of a more general treatment

No. There would be no panic attack without anxiety, but panic attacks are intense, heightened episodes of fear and anxiety (hence ‘panic’). They usually are accompanied by feelings of immediate dread and doom, that one could die of a heart attack or suffocate, for example. They often last only ten to fifteen minutes and then