Generalized Anxiety  “Free Floating” anxiety  Anxiety Baseline is always elevated  Excessive worry  Can cause physical symptoms such as:  Tension nausea  Fatigue  Headaches  Dizzy Spells  Cold sweats

Panic Attacks  Fear of losing control or dying  Pounding heartbeat  Difficulty breathing  Choking sensation  Nausea  Feeling like you may die

Obsessive Compulsive  Upsetting involuntary thoughts (i.e. violent)  Compulsion to do things repeatedly (wash hands / Lock Doors)  Fear that something bad will happen if one does not give into these urges

Social Phobia  General: Pathological Shyness  Feeling of being under scrutiny by other  (i.e. while dinning at a restaurant)  Performance Anxiety  Where you are under scrutiny by others  (i.e. stage fright / giving oral reports / test anxiety)

Agoraphobia  Greek for “fear of the marketplace”  Find themselves in situations they can not easily escape from  Abnormal fear of open spaces or some place new  Feel no help is available to them  Feel that the situation will be embarrassing

Simple Phobia  An irrational fear of one thing, (i.e. fear of Squirrels)