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Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria, and Features of Trichotillomania
Trichotillomania, also known as hair-pulling disorder, is an obsessive-compulsive disorder in which people repeatedly pull out hair from any part of their body. Studies reveal that there have not been many large epidemiological studies on this disorder, but estimates of its frequency show that between 0.5% and 2% of the general population has it. However,…
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Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria, and Features of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a common mental illness that affects 1-3% of the world’s population. It is marked by unwanted thoughts, or obsessions, doing the same things over and over again, or compulsions. These symptoms make patients’ lives very difficult because they take up a lot of time, make them very upset, and make it…
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Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria, and Features of Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia is the fear that someone will get hurt if they are in a public or busy place where they can’t easily get out or where help might not be easy to find. It is marked by the fear that a panic attack or signs similar to a panic attack could happen in these scenarios.…
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Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria, Features and Treatment of Selective Mutism
Selective mutism is a long-lasting and severely limiting mental illness in which a child is unable to speak when they should. Selective mutism is classified as an anxiety condition, but because it is so different and complex, it may be thought of as a neurodevelopmental disease. Children with selective mutism are very rare and have…
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Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria, and Features of Specific Phobia
Specific phobia is an anxiety condition in which a person is overly afraid of a certain thing, situation, or action for no good reason. Anxiety is more than just being scared, it makes people avoid things. The level of fear is often too high compared to the real threat that the phobic trigger poses. For…
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Maladaptive Daydreaming
Have you seen people lost in themselves for hours and hours, unbothered by what is happening in the environment? Do you wonder why they act like they are living a life in a world of their own and are completely dissociated from the present world most of the time? Do you wish to know what…
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Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria, and Features of Separation Anxiety Disorder
One very common anxiety condition in kids is separation anxiety disorder (SAD). A person with SAD feels too much worry, concern, or even dread about being separated from an attachment figure, even if they are just going to be separated for a short time. It is normal for people to experience separation anxiety at certain…
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Etiology, Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria, and Features of Panic Disorder
A lot of people in the general community have panic disorder. It is one form of anxiety disorder that is characterized by recurrent, sudden panic attacks. Many ideas and models try to explain how panic disorder might start. Most of them point to a biological imbalance as a major cause, such as problems with gamma-aminobutyric…
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Social Anxiety Disorder – Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria and Diagnostic Features
Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also referred to as social phobia, is a very upsetting long-term mental illness that causes people to be afraid of going to social events because they think other people will judge them badly. People with this crippling illness are often not properly evaluated because some of the signs of SAD look…
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Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria, and Diagnostic Features of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder is a mental health condition that causes people to feel afraid, worried, and stressed all the time. It is marked by worrying too much, too often, and about things that do not matter. This worry could be about many things, such as money, family, health, or the future. Too much of it is…