Well-Connected Reviewed by Dr. Jacqueline Brooks Risk Factors for Anxiety in General Age . Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric condition in the United States. The prevalence of severe anxiety disorders is much lower, however.
Depression is a common companion in such children.
With the exception of OCD and possibly social anxiety, women have twice the risk for most anxiety disorders than men do. A number of factors may increase the risk in women, including hormonal factors, cultural pressures to meet everyone else's needs except their own, and fewer self-restrictions on reporting anxiety to physicians. Family History . Anxiety disorders run in families. Although family dynamics and psychologic influences are often at work, genetic factors may also play a role in many cases.