Self-Diagnosis Anxiety Checklist
Directions: Check off which of these 7 symptom combinations you have and which category of psychological state you in all likelihood have.
__1. I knowingness humiliated and endure property tautness or uncomfortableness that seems to come through out of the pitch-black when I focus in the order of a unique status.
__2. I skirt ad hoc situations that sort me perceive self-conscious.
__3. I have a lowest 4 of the stalking symptoms at the very time: shortness of activity or awareness smothered; suspicion palpitations; shaking or shaking; choking; faintness or unsteadiness; nausea or body part distress; numbness; thought disconnected or out of touch beside myself; foreboding of dying; obsession of going foolish or out of control; hot flashes or chills; sweaty lacking elbow grease.
__4. I be afraid excessively, awareness restless, keyed up, on edge, complaining smoothly fatigued, have discord tumbling slumbery or staying asleep or I consequence up tired, have cliff-hanging and stiffly muscles,have density concentrating, and/or brainstorm my awareness going blank.
__5. I have persistent interfering thoughts specified as pain or harming a hand-to-hand relative, woman stained by grime or a cytotoxic substance, fearing I forgot to fastener my movable barrier or swerve off an appliance, and or have nasty fantasies roughly speaking a tragedy.
__6. I execute pattern schedule such as work my custody or as well as to ameliorate my condition because I have fears that support incoming my knowledge.
__7. I have witnessed or been subjected to a severe submit yourself to and have ruthless symptoms that have lasted for at slightest a month, as well as insistent and distressing
thoughts, nightmares, flashbacks, attempts to re-create the situation, hysterical lack of feeling(out of touch with your emotions)--feeling no anger, sadness, guilt, or alleviation), hunch cut off from other than people, losing colour in undertakings that once gave me pleasure, sleep or reduction problems, surprising easily, choler and/or outbursts of choler.
Key to Your Answers:
If you check #1: Just reasoning roughly a conditions brings on discomfort; you have anticipatory anxiety.
If you checked #2: Your discomfort arises single in riposte to being in a limited situation, you have what is called, situational anxiety, and you are plausible to be treatment beside agoraphobia or dismay of active to specialised places or individual unsocial. If your discomfort is incidental to to anyone in social group situations and is related to to avoiding corrupting or sticky yourself, you may be wounded from social phobia.
If you restrained #3: You regard among your symptosm shortness of activity or response smothered, you have panic attacks. If your anxiety forces you to circumvent unshakable situationsor objects, you have a phobia. If the dodging is of places, specified as driving on highways, active to doctors, riding in elevators, using unrestricted transportation, active finished bridges or going finished tunnels, eating in restaurants, going to work, and so forth, you are likely dealing with
agorophobia.
If you checked #4: You in all likelihood have a generalized psychological state disorder.
If you checked #5:. You may have an obsessive-compulsive disorder, near obsessions solitary.
If you checked #6: You are in all likelihood treatment with an obsessive neurotic disorder beside both obsessions and compulsions.
If you restrained #7: You are in all likelihood in post-traumatic stress or non-specific anxiety pattern.
This self-test is excerpted beside commendation from Carolyn Chambers Clark's book, LIVING WELL WITH ANXIETY: WHAT YOUR DOCTOR DOESN'T TELL YOU THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW, HarperCollins, 2006. For more news just about what to do around your condition, confer with LIVING WELL WITH ANXIETY. Ask for it at your district bookstall or brainwave it at amazon.com
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