anxiety and panic attacks

Anxiety disorders include panic attacks, social anxiety or agoraphobia and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), which causes the development and

repetition of habitual rituals.

People with social anxiety may have specific panic attacks / anxiety attacks in situations where they feel they may embarrass themselves in some

way. The other major anxiety disorder is generalized anxiety disorder which presents symptoms of one or more anxiety conditions in varying degrees

and can also present you with panic attacks and phobias.

Anxiety and panic attacks induced avoidance behavior can produce agoraphobia, a phobic condition which causes the sufferer to restrict social

interaction and retreat to 'safety'. Repeated avoidance causes the phobia to intensify until total withdrawal occurs.

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