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Are panic disorder and anxiety disorder the same conditions?
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Dr. Kenneth Adleranswered
Family Medicine 42 years experience
No: Panic disorder is one form of anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorder represent the broader category. Other anxiety disorders besides panic disorder include generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, and phobias.
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Dr. Claude Sassoonanswered
Clinical Psychology 24 years experience
Not the same: Anxiety disorders is a general category that includes several specific disorders of anxiety. Some of these are: specific phobia; social phobia; obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, etc. Panic disorder is characterized by recurrent unexpected panic attacks, discrete periods with sudden onset of intense apprehension and feelings of impending doom.
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Dr. Bassam Amawianswered
Psychiatry 51 years experience
They R anxiety : But they r not the same. Anxiety comes in different categories , panic can strike suddenly , peak in 10 minuets, symptoms dizziness , rapid heat beet , shortness if breath , fear if loss if control or death, sweating , shaking and many ends in the er.
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Dr. William Holmesanswered
Child Psychiatry 36 years experience
Same, Different: The term anxiety disorder is a general category covering several types of problems. One of these is panic disorder, which is characterized by sudden, intense feelings of panic and fear along with a variety of physical symptoms. There are other types of anixety, including chronic, generalized anxiety, which consists of nervousness on a daily basis.
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