Anxiety Fun Facts
These disorders are the most common mental health concern in the United States.
What are anxiety disorders?
This is the number of anxiety disorders currently listed in the DSM5.
What is eleven?
In 2017, this was the seventh leading cause of death in the state of Colorado.
What is suicide?
The essential feature of this kind of depressive disorder is a depressed mood that occurs for most of the day, for more days than not, for at least two years.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?
This class of drugs is considered first-line treatment for depression and anxiety. They work by increasing the level of serotonin in the brain.
What are SSRIs?
Anxiety disorders differ from transient fear or anxiety by typically lasting at least this amount of time.
What is six months?
Individuals with this anxiety disorder are fearful or anxious about or avoidant of specific objects or situations.
What is Specific Phobia?
Depression is the leading cause of this worldwide, and is a major contributor to the overall global burden of disease.
What is disability?
Major depressive disorder is characterized by discrete episodes that last at least this amount of time.
What is two weeks?
This form of psychotherapy is considered to be most effective for patients experiencing anxiety and/or depression.
What is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)?
Many anxiety disorders typically develop during this time in a person's life.
What is childhood?
In this anxiety disorder, individuals experience persistent and excessive anxiety and worry about various domains and experience difficulty controlling it.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
This percentage of patients with major depression do not respond to existing treatments.
What is 50%?
What is Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder?
This psychological treatment was developed to help people confront their fears by not avoiding the objects, activities, or situations they fear.
What is exposure therapy?
Anxiety is the anticipation of future threat, while this is the response to real or perceived imminent threat.
What is fear?
This anxiety disorder is characterized by a consistent failure to speak in social situations in which there is an expectation to speak even though the individual speaks in other situations.
What is Selective Mutism?
The common feature of all depressive disorders is the presence of sad, empty, or THIS kind of mood.
What is irritable?
One criteria of depressive disorders that must be met is that the patient has never experienced this kind of an episode.
What is manic (or hypomanic)?
This procedure uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the brain to improve symptoms of major depression.
What is Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)?
This is an abrupt surge of intense fear or discomfort that reaches a peak within minutes, and often occurs in patients diagnosed with an anxiety disorder.
What is a panic attack?
The essential feature of this anxiety disorder is marked fear or anxiety triggered by the real or anticipated exposure to a wide range of situations.
What is Agoraphobia?
Adults with a depressive disorder or symptoms have a 64% greater risk of developing this medical condition.
What is Coronary Artery Disease?
For a depressive disorder to be considered in "full remission", there must be no significant signs or symptoms of the disturbance for at least this amount of time.
What is two months?
According to Atlas Prescription claims data, this medication was the #1 medication prescribed to treat anxiety in the U.S. in 2022.
What is Gabapentin? (17.6% of the total share of anti-anxiety drugs)