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

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

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

" Anxiety is also linked and perpetuated by the person's own pessimistic outcome expectancy and how they cope with feedback negativity

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

:# The avoidance is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance ( e. g. a drug of abuse, a medication ) or a general medical condition and is not better accounted for by another mental disorder ( e. g. Panic Disorder With or Without Agoraphobia, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, a Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Schizoid Personality 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 disorder is divided into generalized anxiety disorder, phobic disorder, and panic disorder ; each has its own characteristics and symptoms and they require different treatment ( Gelder et al.

The term lent itself to several " in " jokes: in Mel Brooks ' film High Anxiety, which parodies many Hitchcock films, a minor plot point is advanced by a mysterious phone call from a " Mr. MacGuffin ".

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

The opening is also referenced by Rainn Wilson in the DVD commentary of The Office episode entitled " Performance Anxiety ".

Rapport, Todd, Lumley, and Fisicaro suggest that the closest DSM-IV diagnostic category to nervous breakdown is Adjustment Disorder with Mixed Anxiety and Depressed Mood ( Acute ).

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.

F. The preoccupation is not better accounted for by Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, a Major Depressive Episode, Separation Anxiety, or another Somatoform Disorder.

The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry ( ISBN 0-19-511221-0 ) is a book by Harold Bloom, published in 1973.

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.

In Status Anxiety ( 2004 ), de Botton examines an almost universal anxiety that is rarely mentioned directly: what others think of us ; about whether we're judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser.

Mark Leiren-Young ( born 1962 ) is a Canadian journalist, screenwriter, playwright and occasional performer in the comedy duo Local Anxiety.

Only the deep Barranco de las Angustias (" Canyon of Anxiety ") canyon leads into the inner area of the caldera which is a national park.

" According to Marjorie Garber's academic study, Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety ( 1992 ), Elvis impersonation is so insistently connected with femininity that it is " almost as if the word ' impersonator ', in contemporary popular culture, can be modified either by ' female ' or by ' Elvis.

* Carnage is a boss character in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade's Revenge, The Amazing Spider-Man: Lethal Foes, and Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage and its sequel Venom / Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety.

During this period, Kieślowski was considered part of a loose movement with other Polish directors of the time, including Janusz Kijowski, Andrzej Wajda, and Agnieszka Holland, called the Cinema of Moral Anxiety.

Author and founder of the TED, Richard Saul Wurman, is considered the originator of the phrase " information architect " and many of his books, such as Information Anxiety, helped propel the phrase, " information design ", from a concept to a job category.

However, White ( 2009 ) also observes that if the work of Robert Yerkes ( 1907 ) is considered in which he reported ' Anxiety improves performance until a certain optimum level of arousal has been reached.

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.

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

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

Standardized screening clinical questionnaires such as the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale or the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale can be used to detect anxiety symptoms, and suggest the need for a formal diagnostic assessment of anxiety disorder.

Anxiety can be a symptom of a medical or substance abuse problem, and medical professionals must be aware of this.

Anxiety disorders and somatoma dysfunctions are prevalent but the most common would be depression.

Improvements in these areas can be measured by a number of tests, including qualitative questionnaires like Beck ’ s Depression Inventory, State and Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Relationship Change Scale.

On January 28, 2000 Dr. Sidney Kennedy, Professor or Psychiatry and Head, Mood & Anxiety Division, CAMH, wrote to Healy discussing details of an offer to be appointed a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and Clinical Director for the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at CAMH.

* Anxiety may be improved with the use of beta blockers.

On September 22, 2005, during a concert at The Beaumont Club in Kansas City, Missouri, frontman Sean Danielsen stated that their new album Anxiety, would not be released due to issues with Lava Records.

Marjorie Garber, author of Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety, asserts that despite the book and the film indicating that Buffalo Bill merely believes himself to be transsexual, they still imply negative connotations about transsexualism.

Anxiety, stress, and / or phonophobia may be present in both types of hyperacusis.

Anxiety caused by recording and writing the album, and what would later be diagnosed as bipolar disorder landed him in a mental institution.

Anxiety and depression disorders in children-whether noted or unnoted, are found to be a precursor for similar episodes in adulthood.

Although school refusal is not a clinical disorder according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, it can be associated with several psychiatric disorders, including Separation Anxiety Disorder, Social Phobia, and Conduct Disorder.