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Anxiety Disorders

What are the causes?

Often the cause is entirely normal and justifiable, for example an impending test, or driving a car for the first time. On other occasions the cause is less understandable, or the anxiety reaction is out of proportion. In these situations a learnt fear and avoidance response to whatever is causing the anxiety often develops (phobia).

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Medical text written October 2004 by Professor J Turk, Professor of Developmental Psychiatry and Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Department of Clinical Developmental Sciences, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK.

 

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