“I never lose. I either win or learn.
” - Nelson Mandela
Other anxiety disorders include Anxiety Disorders due to a General Medical Condition (where the anxiety is a direct physiological consequence of a general medical condition), Substance-Induced Anxiety Disorder (where the anxiety is directly caused by the physiological effects of a substance - drug of abuse or medication - including prescription use, poisoning, intoxication, or withdrawal), and Anxiety Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (where there is prominent clinically significant anxiety or phobic avoidance that doesn't meet the diagnostic criteria for any other anxiety or adjustment disorder).
Health anxiety disorder and hypochondriasis are typically classified under Somatoform disorders.
“Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
” - St Teresa of Avila
Acute stress disorder
“ To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable. To be certain is to be merely ridiculous. ” - Goethe
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
“ The eye altering, alters all. ” - William Blake
Specific phobias
“ It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. ” - Irish Proverb
Social anxiety disorder
“ Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. ” - Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby
Panic disorder
“Modo liceat vivere, est spes. While there's life, there's hope.
” - Terence
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
” - Henry Ford
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
I've been working on the 'Panic & depersonalization' handouts list in the Good Knowledge section of this website. The list contains most of the handouts and questionnaires I currently use when working with people suffering from panic disorder, agoraphobia or depersonalization/ derealization disorder. Here they are with brief descriptions:
