Anxiety Disorders Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• ocd : recurrent obsessions or compulsions that are severe enough to take up time.
• agoraphobia : a fear of public places and open spaces, commonly accompanying panic disorder
• preparedness hypothesis : the notion that we have an innate tendency, acquired through natural selection, to respond quickly and automatically to stimuli that posed a survival threat to our ancestors.
• anxiety disorders : mental problems characterized mainly by anxiety. anxiety disorders include panic disorder, specific phobias, and obsessive-compulsive disorder
• panic disorder : a disturbance marked by panic attacks that have no obvious connection with events in the person’s present experience. unlike generalized anxiety disorder, the victim is usually free of anxiety between panic attacks
• phobias : a group of anxiety disorders involving a pathological fear of a specific object or situation
• generalized anxiety : symptoms: inability to relax, muscle tension or ache, persistent worrying, trembling, nausea, overthinking