“ If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito. ” - Anonymous
Other anxiety disorders include Anxiety Disorders due to a General Medical Condition (where the anxiety is a direct physiological consequence of a general medical condition), Substance-Induced Anxiety Disorder (where the anxiety is directly caused by the physiological effects of a substance - drug of abuse or medication - including prescription use, poisoning, intoxication, or withdrawal), and Anxiety Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (where there is prominent clinically significant anxiety or phobic avoidance that doesn't meet the diagnostic criteria for any other anxiety or adjustment disorder).
Health anxiety disorder and hypochondriasis are typically classified under Somatoform disorders.
“ Watchful like a man crossing a winter stream, yielding like ice about to melt, simple like an uncarved block of wood, hollow like a cave. ” - Lao Tzu
Acute stress disorder
“ At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. ” - Friedrich Nietzsche
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
“I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
” - Pablo Casals
Specific phobias
“ Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. ” - Franklin Jones
Social anxiety disorder
“ To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ” - Marilyn Vos Savant
Panic disorder
“ Hope is the dream of a soul awake. ” - French proverb
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
“The self may be said to be made up of reflected appraisals.
” - Harry Stack Sullivan
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
I've been working on the 'Panic & depersonalization' handouts list in the Good Knowledge section of this website. The list contains most of the handouts and questionnaires I currently use when working with people suffering from panic disorder, agoraphobia or depersonalization/ derealization disorder. Here they are with brief descriptions:
