What is an anxiety disorder? There is a separate group of disorders that fall under the category of neurotic, stress-related, and somatoform disorders. These include phobic anxiety disorders, panic disorders, generalized anxiety disorders (GAD), mixed anxiety and depressive disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) , post-traumatic disorder (PTSD), conversion disorders, and somatoform disorders. An anxiety disorder is when your anxiety gets out of control and starts affecting your life.
A phobia is an intense, continuous and illogical fear of an object, situation, activity, person or animal that's generally considered harmless. Accompanying the fear is an excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid what you fear. When facing the object of his/her phobia, the person may experience negative feelings like excessive sweating, poor control of nerves, difficulty breathing, rapid heart…
