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To summarize:
• Panic Disorder:
Individuals experiencing this disorder suffer from unexpected attacks of anxiety that develop abruptly and reach a critical point within a short period of time (often between two and ten minutes.)
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD):
This disorder can evolve into one of the more severe of the anxiety disorders. People with OCDs are bombarded with persistent and uncontrollable thoughts, as well as compulsions to perform specific actions over and over again.
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD):
The characteristic feature of this disorder is excessive worry on most days. This causes distress and/or functional impairment to the person. An individual may worry about work, relationships, health, approval, goals, or money.
• Phobias:
Phobias involve intense and irrational fears. People can fear a particular thing, place, or condition.
• Eating Disorders:
Eating disorders can take several forms: bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and pica. In each of these disorders, individuals do not have a healthy relationship with food.
• Impulse Control Disorders:
Many psychological problems are characterized by a loss or lack of control in certain situations (such as OCD, alcoholism). The factor that makes impulse control disorder different from other disorders is a lack of other maladaptive thoughts and actions.
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