Anxiety Disorders: Diagnoses, Clinical Features, and Epidemiology

Abstract

Although anxiety disorders present in many ways, they all share the key features of inappropriately high distress in the form of anxiety and fear responses to stimuli that are not actually dangerous and efforts to avoid or escape such stimuli. Problematic levels of fear and anxiety can result in many negative impacts on people's lives, across social, economic, and physical realms. Anxiety disorders as a whole are very prevalent in today's world, among both youth and adults.

Keywords: Anxiety; Anxiety disorders; DSM-5-TR; Diagnosis; Epidemiology.