The UPC-Warren site is affiliated with the Wayne State University School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, and provides treatment services and conducts research projects approved by the University. UPC emphasizes the development of innovative and cost-effective treatments to help people overcome anxiety.
Anxiety is one of the most distressing emotions that people feel.
It is also referred to as fear or nervousness. Anxiety is also a term used to describe periods of nervousness or fear that people experience when they face difficult situations in life. Scope of the Problem Anxiety can be productive and stimulating, but when it is excessive, it is crippling. More than 23 million Americans suffer from anxiety so severe that it has impaired their ability to function and has developed into an anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses in the United States today.