### condition | anxiety:

Moral anxiety
* is the fear of one's own conscious.
+ Freud's psychoanalytic theories, 'Anxiety and Defense Mechanisms'
  * Freud noted that a major drive for people is the reduction of tension and the major cause of tension was anxiety. He identified three types of anxiety, reality anxiety, neurotic anxiety, and moral anxiety. Reality anxiety is the most basic form of anxiety and is based on the ego. It is typically based on the fear of real and possible events, for example being bit by a dog or falling off of a roof. Neurotic anxiety comes from an unconscious fear that the basic impulses of the id will take control of the person, leading to eventual punishment from expressing the ids desires. Moral anxiety comes from the superego. It appears in the form of a fear of violating values or moral codes, and appears as feelings like guilt or shame.

Neurotic anxiety
* is characterized by a fear disproportionate to the object involved.
* tends to immobilize people.

Performance anxiety
* can appear in late childhood and social phobia in adolescence
  - take a variety of forms
* challenge for all athletes, including the youth athlete.
* is an example of a neurotic anxiety
  - milder and specific to certain activities
  - one of the most common causes of psychological impotence

### condition | anxiety:

Separation anxiety
* behavior in which a dog is stressed when left alone.
* can continue off and on, though usually in milder forms, throughout childhood
  - till the child s first day at pre-school
  - explain why many children refuse to attend school
  - lead to fouling in the house, chewing and barking
  - occur in any breed and at any age
  - often produce severe barking as well when the dog is left alone
* causes pets to become overly anxious and stressed when their owners are gone.
* complex and frequently profound behavioral disorder of dogs.
* condition that affects dogs who are over-attached to their owners.
* is arguably harder on the parents than on the child
  - developmentally universal and normal
  - felt for many reasons throughout a person's life
  - more common among preschool through early elementary-age children
  - one of the most common emotional disorders to afflict dogs today
* is perhaps the best-known behavioral ailment affecting our canine companions
  - main reason pet owners have for giving up their Whippet
* is the biggest concern for little ones entering junior or senior kindergarten
  - most common specific anxiety in companion dogs
  - thought to be the number one anxiety problem in childhood
  - treatable in older dogs as well
  - very common for children at that age
* occurs in children who are school aged
  - dogs of all ages and breeds
* problem that often brings on the first episode of feather plucking.
* produces the desire to return to and merge with the mother.
* real problem for many dogs.
* reality, for both mother and baby.
* starts at approximately nine monthe of age.
* stems from the child's inability to hold on to an image.
* syndrome in which a dog panics when it is left alone.
* tends to wax and wane throughout the toddler years.
* typical stage of development to an extent.
* very common problem among children, especially younger ones
  - natural and healthy sign of a well-adjusted child
  - real problem facing many children