Anxiety Disorders

Everybody knows what it's like to feel anxious - the butterflies in your stomach before a first date, the tension you feel when your boss is angry, the way your heart pounds when you are in danger. Anxiety prepares us to face threatening situations, rouses us to action, and helps us cope. But, for a person with an anxiety disorder, this normally helpful emotion can do just the opposite - it can make it impossible to handle a situation and disrupt daily life.

Anxiety disorders affect more than 23 million Americans each year. Types of anxiety disorders include generalized anxiety disorder