Five major types of anxiety disorders:
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Panic Disorder
Social Phobia (or Social Anxiety Disorder)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Emotional symptoms of anxiety:
Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress. Anxiety is characterized by excessive, exaggerated anxiety and worry about everyday life events with no obvious reasons for worry. Anxiety symptoms in both men and women tend to always expect disaster and can’t stop worrying about health, money, family, work, or school.
In addition to the primary symptoms of irrational and excessive fear and worry, other common emotional anxiety symptoms in men and women include:
Anticipating the worst
Irritability
Restlessness
Watching for signs of danger
Feeling like your mind’s gone blank
Feelings of apprehension or dread
Trouble concentrating
Feeling tense and jumpy
Symptoms of Impulsivity:
interrupt conversations
difficulty waiting for things
inappropriate comments
show their emotions without restraint
act without regard for consequences
Causes:
The main causes are still unknown. But it seems that genes play a large role. In addition, scientists are looking for possible causes like environmental factors, brain injury, etc.