ANXIETY DISORDER

ANXIETY
DISORDER

PREPARED FOR:
PUAN FARIDAH BINTI YUSOF

PREPARED BY:
• IMAN SAFIYAH ADEENA BINTI NORSAHIDI
• NUR HAFLIN NATASYA BINTI MUHAMMAD

HAFIZ
• LIA UMAIRAH SAFIAH BINTI RAZALI
• NUR FARAH BATRISYIA BT JUNAIDI
• NUR INSYIRAH BINTI ANIS

Definition :

Anxiety disorder are a cluster of mental disorders
characterized by significant and uncontrollable feelings
of anxiety and fear such that a person’s social,
occupational, and personal function are significantly
impaired. Anxiety is a worry about future events, while
fear is a reaction to current events. Anxiety may cause
physical and cognitive symptoms such as restlessness,
irritability, increased heart rate, chest pain, abdominal
pain, and many others.

TyTpyepseasnadnd
SySmypmtpotmosmosfof

AnAxniextiyety

PANIC DISORDER Symptoms
• A person has panic attacks, which • shortness of breath
• chest pain
are intense, overwhelming and often • dizziness
uncontrollable feelings of anxiety • excessive perspiration
combined with a range of physical Sometimes, people experiencing a
symptoms. If a person has recurrent panic attack think they are
panic attacks or persistently fears having a heart attack or about to
having one for more than a month, die.
they’re said to have a panic disorder.

Symptoms SOCIAL ANXIETY
• excessive perspiration • A person has an intense fear of
• trembling
• blushing or stammering when trying being criticised, embarrassed or
humiliated, even in everyday
to speak situations, such as speaking
• nausea or diarrhoea
Worry excessively that they will do or publicly, eating in public, being
say the wrong thing and that something assertive at work or making
terrible will happen as a result. small talk.

Symptoms GENERALISED ANXIETY DISORDER
People with GAD, however, feel (GAD)
anxious and worried most of the • Most people who have this disorder feel
time, not just in specific stressful
situations, and these worries are anxious and worried from time to time,
intense, persistent and interfere especially when faced with stressful
with their normal symptoms are situations like taking an exam, speaking in
present for six months or move on public, playing competitive sport or going
more days than not. for a job interview. This sort of anxiety
can make you feel alert and focused,
helping you get things done faster or
perform your best.

OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER Symptoms
(OCD) • Cleanliness/order: obsession
• A person has ongoing unwanted or
with order or symmetry
instructive thoughts and fears that cause • Counting/hoarding:
anxiety. They often try to relieve their
anxiety by carrying out certain repeatedly counting items
behaviours of rituals. For example, a fear or objects, such as their
of germs and contamination can lead to clothes or pavement blocks
constant washing of hands.

POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS Symptoms
DISORDER (PTSD) • Re-living the traumatic event: The person
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
relives the event through and recurring
(PTSD) is a particular set of memories, often in the form of vivid
reactions that can develop in images and nightmares.
people who have been through • Being overly alert or wound up: The
a traumatic event which person experiences sleeping difficulties,
threatened their life or safety, irritability and lack of concentration,
or that of others around becoming easily startled
them. • Feeling emotionally numb: the person
loses interest in day-to-day activities.

Symptoms SPECIFIC PHOBIA
• Have a persistent, excessive and • A person feels very fearful about

unreasonable fear of a specific object particular object or situation and
• Find that the anxiety or avoidance may go to great lengths to avoid it,
for example, having an injection or
associated with such situations travelling on a plane.
makes it difficult to go about life
• The anxiety and avoidance are
persistent and have been present for
at least 6 months or more

Causes of
Anxiety

SOCIETAL GENETICS
EXPECTATIONS Another factor is because of
Anxiety commonly happen genetics that can affect
because of the toxic certain person in a family who
surrounding that might received the most of the gens.
stressing a person out.
BRAIN CHEMISTRY
SUBTANCE USE Many psychologists define that
It usually happen because of anxiety attacking person
effect of medication of an because of hormones and
intensive surgery and electrical signals in the brain or
prolonged recovery. being called as brain chemistry.

Managing
Anxiety

Healthy Lifestyle Memory Creation Relaxation Strategies
Simply sleeping more isn’t This can be very hard for those Visualization involves
going to magically take it with severe anxiety since it imagining yourself and five
away, but they’ll drastically requires going out into the senses in a more relaxed
reduce the symptoms, which world, but more positive place that can give your
should help you cope with thoughts you’ll have when mind an opportunity to be
anxiety much more easily. you’re struggling with stress. calmer so that you have a
chance to relearn how to
Journaling cope with stress naturally.
Writing down thoughts in a
journal may seem like Exercise
something you only did as a When you exercise, you not
child, but it’s a powerful only reduce that extra
coping tool. It benefits energy, you also improve
anxiety to release thoughts hormone balance, release
and find your own strategies neurotransmitters that
that work for you. enhance mood and improve
breathing.

Conclusion :

Anxiety is a normal, but highly
subjective, human emotion. While
normal anxiety serves a beneficial and
adaptive purpose, anxiety can also
become the cause of tremendous
suffering for millions of people.

Resources :

• Definition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety_disorder

• Types and Symptoms of Anxiety

https://www.beyondblue.org.au/the-facts/anxiety/types-of-anxiety

• Causes of Anxiety

https://www.beyondblue.org.au/the-facts/anxiety/what-causes-anxiety

• Managing Anxiety

https://www.calmclinic.com/anxiety/management

• Conclusion

https://www.gracepointwellness.org/1-anxiety-disorders/article/38508-conclusion

Thank You !