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Anxiety Disorders
How is it treated?
Treatment usually consists of behavioural psychotherapeutic approaches aimed at desensitizing the individual systematically to the fear inducing object or situation. Relaxation exercises are often used. 'Exposure' activities are undertaken allowing individuals to tolerate increasingly anxiety-provoking situations while practicing their ability to remain in psychological control and not panicking.
For those with obsessive compulsive disorders behavioural programmes including exposure therapy are again useful, particular when combined with 'response prevention' strategies, encouraging sufferers to tolerate increasingly stressful situations which predispose to the obsessive-compulsive problems while remaining calm and resisting the urges. In extreme instances modern antidepressants which have strong anti-obsessional properties are prescribed.
What are the causes?
| Inheritance patterns and prenatal diagnosis 
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