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Signs & Symptoms

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Each of these anxiety disorders is distinct in some ways, but they all share the same hallmark features:

• irrational and excessive fear

• apprehensive and tense feelings

• difficulty managing daily tasks and/or distress related to these tasks.

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Cognitive, Behavioural and physical symptoms include:

• anxious thoughts (e.g., “I’m losing control” )

• anxious predictions (e.g., “I’m going to fumble my words and humiliate myself”)

• anxious beliefs (e.g., “Only weak people get anxious”)

• avoidance of feared situations (e.g., driving)

• avoidance of activities that elicit sensations similar to those experienced when anxious (e.g., exercise)

• subtle avoidance's (behaviours that aim to distract the person, e.g., talking more during periods of anxiety)

• safety behaviours (habits to minimize anxiety and feel “safer,” e.g., always having a cell phone on hand to call for help)

• excessive physical reactions relative to the context (e.g., heart racing and feeling short of breath in response to being at the mall).

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The physical symptoms of anxiety may be mistaken for symptoms of a physical illness, such as a heart attack.