In The Concept of Anxiety ( also known as The Concept of Dread, depending on the translation ), Kierkegaard used the word Angest ( in common Danish, angst, meaning " dread " or " anxiety ") to describe a profound and deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and fear in the free human being.

Anxiety or fear that interferes with normal functioning may be classified as an anxiety disorder.

:# The anxiety, panic attack, or phobic avoidance associated with the specific object or situation are not better accounted for by another mental disorder, such as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder ( e. g., fear of dirt in someone with an obsession about contamination ), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ( e. g., avoidance of stimuli associated with a severe stressor ), Separation Anxiety Disorder ( e. g., avoidance of school ), Social Phobia ( e. g., avoidance of social situations because of fear of embarrassment ), Panic Disorder With Agoraphobia, or Agoraphobia Without History of Panic Disorder.

Anxiety disorder is a blanket term covering several different forms of a type of common psychiatric disorder characterized by excessive rumination, worrying, uneasiness, apprehension and fear about future uncertainties either based on real or imagined events, which may affect both physical and psychological health.

Anxiety, fear and anger are also absent, and her work is harmonic and integrative.

:* Anxiety disorder, different forms of abnormal and pathological fear and anxiety

" Anxiety " is the anticipation or fear of being cut off from the attachment figure.

* Anxiety, fear or phobia

* Anxiety or fear

Anxiety is the most common mental illness in America as approximately 40 million adults are affected by it.

Anxiety disorder is a key point in abnormal cognitive approach which can change our body appearance and system to negative aspects, increases the variations of them during illness period.

Anxiety will prevail on the minds of all kings.

Anxiety, as well as mood and obsessive-compulsive symptoms, may be treated using SSRIs, although these can also aggravate hyperactivity and cause disinhibited behavior.

In chapter 4 (" The Terror of History ") of The Myth of the Eternal Return and chapter 9 (" Religious Symbolism and the Modern Man's Anxiety ") of Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries, Eliade argues at length that the rejection of religious thought is a primary cause of modern man's anxieties.

Anxiety can also cause palpitations in that the heart muscles are affected by the state of one's mind.

Anxiety experienced after age 4 might lead to wetting after the child has been dry for a period of 6 months or more.

Castaneda, et al revised the Taylor Anxiety Scale for use with children.

Reliability and validation work with the Children's Anxiety Scale by Castaneda, et al demonstrated results closely similar to the findings with the adult scale.

Anxiety ( also called angst or worry ) is a psychological and physiological state characterized by somatic, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral components.

Anxiety is considered to be a normal reaction to a stressor.

Anxiety is a generalized mood that can occur without an identifiable triggering stimulus.

When someone does develop chronic or severe problems with anxiety, such problems are usually classified as being one or more of the specific types of Anxiety Disorders.

Anxiety takes several forms: phobia, social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and post-traumatic stress.

Anxiety can also be experienced in ways which include changes in sleeping patterns, nervous habits, and increased motor tension like foot tapping.

Anxiety can be a symptom of an underlying health issue such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD ), heart failure, or heart arrythmia.

Standardized screening tools such as Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale, Beck Anxiety Inventory, Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale and HAM-A ( Hamilton Anxiety Scale ) can be used to detect anxiety symptoms and suggest the need for a formal diagnostic assessment of anxiety disorder.

The HAM-A ( Hamilton Anxiety Scale ) measures the severity of a patient's anxiety, based on 14 parameters, including anxious mood, tension, fears, insomnia, somatic complaints and behavior at the interview.

The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, in The Concept of Anxiety, described anxiety or dread associated with the " dizziness of freedom " and suggested the possibility for positive resolution of anxiety through the self-conscious exercise of responsibility and choosing.

In The Concept of Anxiety Søren Kierkegaard wrote that Albert Magnus, " arrogantly boasted of his speculation before the deity and suddenly became stupid.

Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorders.

Anxiety is often found in patients with painful conditions and can subconsciously trigger muscle tension.

Anxiety disorders and depression are the most common mental health issues for women.

Yard with Lunatics is a horrifying and imaginary vision of loneliness, fear and social alienation, a departure from the rather more superficial treatment of mental illness in the works of earlier artists such as Hogarth.

Specific phobias: fear of a single specific panic trigger such as spiders, snakes, dogs, water, heights, flying, catching a specific illness, etc.

For example, although the term hydrophobia means a fear of water, it may also mean inability to drink water due to an illness, or may be used to describe a chemical compound which repels water.

By late 1617, Anne's bouts of illness had become debilitating ; the letter writer John Chamberlain recorded: " The Queen continues still ill disposed and though she would fain lay all her infirmities upon the gout yet most of her physicians fear a further inconvenience of an ill habit or disposition through her whole body ".

Other hypochondriacs will never speak about their terror, convinced that their fear of having a serious illness will not be taken seriously by those in whom they confide.

Inaccurate portrayal of risk and the identification of non-specific symptoms as signs of serious illness contribute to exacerbating the hypochondriac ’ s fear that they actually have that illness.

Robin Richardson, an original member of the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, at a 2009 symposium on " Islamophobia and Religious Discrimination ", said that " the disadvantages of the term Islamophobia are significant " on seven different grounds, including that it implies it is merely a " severe mental illness " affecting " only a tiny minority of people "; that use of the term makes those to whom it is applied " defensive and defiant " and absolves the user of " the responsibility of trying to understand them " or trying to change their views ; that it implies that hostility to Muslims is divorced from factors such as skin color, immigrant status, fear of fundamentalism, or political or economic conflicts ; that it conflates prejudice against Muslims in one's own country with dislike of Muslims in countries with which the West is in conflict ; that it fails to distinguish between people who are against all religion from people who dislike Islam specifically ; and that the actual issue being described is hostility to Muslims, " an ethno-religious identity within European countries ", rather than hostility to Islam.

:"... he felt more and more isolated, and spent his last years under the spell of ' totally unfounded financial worries and a paranoid fear of bankruptcy, persecution and illness.

George struggles through the film to resolve his conflicted feelings over this, his guilt over abandoning Zero during the final days of his illness and his fear that the same thing will happen to him.

When Diana first accused the Prince of Wales of adultery with Camilla Parker Bowles, Soames told the BBC that the accusation, and Diana's fear of being slandered by her husband's courtiers, stemmed merely from Diana's mental illness, and " the advanced stages of paranoia ".

Datillio says, “… in one particular case report, atypical anorexia in several adolescent females occurred as a result of a fear of vomiting that followed a viral illness as opposed to the specific desire to lose weight or because of an anxiety reaction .”

* Hypochondriasis ( excessive fear of illness and physical harm )

She explained that so much nervous illness is no more than severe sensitization kept alive by bewilderment and fear.

A three year Belgian research project, presented at a British Psychological Society meeting in September 2008, claimed that watching Holby City and similar medical dramas such as Casualty and ER had a subliminal influence on fear of illness.

In July 2010, Hines disclosed that he suffered from colorectal cancer for eleven years, explaining that he kept his illness a secret for fear of professional alienation.

The courts had been cautious for a number of reasons, including the fear of floodgates ( indeterminate liability ), potential for fraud ( brought on by people exaggerating their claims ), problems of proof and diagnosis ( including the costs of expert opinion ), psychiatric illness may be considered less serious than physical harm, the claimant is often a secondary victim, and, finally, the courts argued that Parliament is better suited to dealing with this area.

The danger of surgery was recognized by some patients in the institution, who, despite their mental illness, developed a very rational fear of the surgical procedures, some resisting violently as they were forced into the operating theater in complete contradiction of what are now commonly accepted medical ethics.

The fear of permanent handicap insists that there is no cure or relief for one's mental illness and that recovery is impossible.

Many fear that a candidate ’ s blood is contaminated with diseases such as epilepsy, neurosis, or mental illness.

Later researchers suggested there was some mystery shared by the two young men, something to do with " fatal illness, fear of death and longing for faith as an antidote to such fear ".