Types Of Anxiety Disorder ( Adhd ) - 1653 Words

If someone described where he or she lives as a place, where they could not leave or where they felt confined and unable to get out it would sound like prison. Although, for some what they are describing is their own home, a place where the walls around them are their jail and their fear is the bars holding them in. These intense emotions derive from a condition known as agoraphobia, a type of anxiety disorder. Yet these imprisoned feelings do not just occur at home, debilitating fears can happen in various places and for a variety of reasons. However, as with many illnesses there is treatment and possibilities to overcome these fears. Recently there have been changes in what constitutes diagnostic criteria for agoraphobia. For†¦show more content†¦123). Therefore, this contributed to placing agoraphobia into its own diagnoses separate from panic disorders in the DSM- V. In order for a diagnosis of agoraphobia to be made many factors play a role, including symptoms, situations, and duration of the symptoms. All of the contributing factors revolve around some type of fear or anxiety. As mentioned earlier the fear or anxiety often revolves around being away from home. An individual in various situations, such as open spaces, enclosed places, being in a crowd or in need of using public transportation worries about something bad happening to themselves, especially if they are alone (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013, p.217). Therefore, people with agoraphobia, if they are able to go into a situation they fear, will often want to have a companion with them in public spaces. Conceivably, everyone experiences some degree of fear at some point in their life. For instance, whether it is flying for the first time or taking their drivers test, the list can go on and on as to what people fear. On the other hand, however, when clinicians are noticing fear or anxiety occurring the majority of the time regardless of the situation and preventing someone from participating in family activities, job related tasks or interferes with other activities