SAD
This disorder involves excessive fear or anxiety about being apart from attachment figures, like parents.
Separation Anxiety Disorder
This anxiety disorder involves excessive and persistent worry about everyday situations.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
In OCD, these are the unwanted, intrusive thoughts or urges that cause distress.
Obsessions
This mental health condition involves sudden, repeated episodes of intense fear known as panic attacks.
Panic Disorder
Selective Mutism
SAD typically begins among children within this age range.
7 to 8
To be diagnosed with GAD, excessive worry typically occurs for at least this many months.
6 months
These repetitive behaviors or mental acts are performed to reduce anxiety caused by obsessions.
Compulsions
People with panic disorder often fear having another one of these sudden episodes of intense fear with symptoms like a racing heart and shortness of breath.
Panic Attack
Children with selective mutism may speak comfortably at home but struggle to be speak in this common place.
School
To be diagnosed, the fear, anxiety, or avoidance is persistent, and must last for at least this duration in children and adolescents.
4 weeks
This demographic is slightly more likely to experience GAD.
Adolescent girls
People will OCD may perform compulsions repeatedly in an attempt to reduce this emotion.
Anxiety
During panic attacks, people may experience intense sweating, shaking, or this feeling of losing control.
Fear of losing control
Selective mutism usually begins during this stage of life when children start interacting more with peers and teachers.
Early childhood
Children with SAD may complain of this type of pain, like headaches or stomachaches, when anticipating separation.
Physical or somatic
Restlessness
This class of medication often used to treat OCD works by affecting serotonin levels.
SSRIs
This mindfulness technique focuses attention on the present moment and can help reduce panic symptoms.
Encouragement and patience from these important people at home can support a child with selective mutism.
Parents and/or caregivers
Depression
This is the approximate percentage of GAD among children who are referred to an anxiety specialty clinic.
9 to 12 years
This type of therapy is commonly used to treat panic disorder by helping people change negative thought patterns.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Where rewarding positive steps toward speaking is a good thing, punishing this is not.
Silence