Lots of people have anxiety. There is no shame in suffering from the disorder. However, to get help, you must admit that you have a health issue and begin to understand the significance of your anxiety disorder symptoms. There is no single identifier, variation of the disorder, or best way to solve it, which is why figuring it out in the first place is so important. People tend to realize there has been a problem because they do not feel quite 'right' or like they used to feel. The only general symptom tends to be anxiety, uncontrollable and oftentimes unreasonable, and this can sadly overwhelm your entire lifestyle.

Anxiety disorder symptom can come and go in phases. There will be periods of prolonged anxiety in every person's life. A little anxiety is to be expected in any lifestyle and may even be useful to make you work harder and appreciate the quiet times more. It is all a matter of dealing with it, working through it, and balancing your life. But for some such balance seems forever out of reach.

It is worthwhile to briefly examine the most common manifestations of anxiety disorder. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder involves a lot of counting, cleaning, and odd fixations. It is a ritualistic disorder where people are compelled to complete certain duties in certain ways. Oftentimes they will have to do an activity (something normal and routine for people without the disorder), but they will have to do it several times in a row. Sheer panic can come if the person is faced with a challenge inhibiting their ability to complete their ritual as they normally do. Children often have slight cases of this disorder. Adults may tend to have just as much of the compulsion as children, but adults can usually control it before it becomes an actual disorder whereas kids are less likely to recognize their compulsions as abnormal or worthy of treatment.

Panic disorders or panic attacks are periods of extreme terror and anxiety, sometimes over something specific, or perhaps over nothing at all. They may cause very physical symptoms, like nausea, dizziness, and shaking. People can easily be confused and unable to focus. In fact, panic attacks can pretty much debilitate a person entirely until they pass. They can be triggered by stress. Sometimes if a person can pin-point the stress-causer in their life and deal with it, the attacks can stop. Sometimes they do not. And some times there is no single reason. Panic attacks can also be so unpleasant that they cause the sufferer to stress about getting them, and therefore end up getting them more. This becomes a vicious cycle.

Social Anxiety Disorder is just what it sounds like--people thinking of social situations literally in terms of a phobia. These sufferers tend to be reclusive because interaction is so uncomfortable. They can shake, sweat, and blush, and are often viewed as very poor speakers because they can get so confused under the pressure of other people present.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a very hard-hitting disorder because it stems from a real-life experience in which a person had a very difficult life experience. These types of experiences involve things like war, rape, and abuse. People with the disorder can have intense flashback and hallucinations of the event. Women are more likely to suffer from one of these.

Many of these disorders come in combination with others, making them very difficult to solve. Children should be watched carefully for any sign of the disorder--adults can hide it better than children can, and no child should have to grow up knowing only that kind of life. The one normal disorder for all children is a brief spell of separation anxiety in the infant to toddler stage.

Treatment can be quite complex but in other cases simply requires exercise and relaxation techniques. For some people, there is no cure. The most they can hope for is to learn to cope with their disorders day by day and create a functioning lifestyle.

For serious sufferers, the best way to attack the problems is through therapy, which can get to the root of the issue, and through medication, which can stop the symptoms and correct any faulty brain chemistry. Leading a healthy lifestyle and getting plenty of exercise is a good way to prevent this. Drinking and smoking increase the chances, as do living in unhappy situations for long periods of time. Often a bad relationship or poor career can the triggers