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 .