Home page Anxiety Disorder Anxiety disorders are common in our world today. It affects people of all ages teenager, middle age, and older. It affects women about twice as much as men. But that maybe because men are less likely to report a problem.
Anxiety disorder can be either acute or chronic.
The acute form is noticed as panic attacks. For many years, panic attacks were thought to be a psychosomatic problem. Now, repeated studies have indicated that this disorder has a real and physical basis. It is now believed that attacks may occur by a malfunction in brain chemistry. This causes the release of norepinephrine which causes increases in pulse, blood pressure, and breathing.