When apprehension and tensions interfere with a person coping effectively with family, job, school or other demands of daily life, the condition must be regarded as a serious psychiatric disorder and should be treated as such. Anxiety disorders often manifest themselves through such physical symptoms as excessive perspiration, shortness of breath, palpitations and rapid heart beats, dizziness, tension headache, and many other accelerated or slowed-down body functions. Probably no single situation or condition causes anxiety disorders. Rather, physical and environmental triggers often combine to create a particular anxiety illness. Medication, behavioral therapy, psychotherapy, or combinations are used to treat anxiety disorders.
Panic disorders involve recurrent attacks of panic or anxiety.
Currently, researchers are exporing the linkages and differences between obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression. Dementias Dementias cause loss of intellectual abilities, especially memory and personality changes . Loss of nerve cells and brain atrophy are responsible for many of the dementias. A series of small strokes, over a period of time, can also result in symptoms of dementia. Genetics seems to be a predisposing factor.