Generalized anxiety disorder, also known as GAD, is the most common among anxiety disorders to be diagnosed. People with GAD suffer from intense and persistent worry. People with separation anxiety worry that something unexpected could separate them from their attachment figure, or that their attachment figure will abandon them. Curious to learn more about the different types of anxiety? Social anxiety, social phobia, selective mutism, panic disorder, agoraphobia, specific phobia, obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD), and post traumatic stress (PTSD) are all covered in this video..

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Credits
Writer: Alex Nunez
Script editor: Rida Batool & Kelly Soong
VO: Amanda Silvera
Animator: Christina Weston
YouTube Manager: Cindy Cheong

Sources
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th Ed). American PsychiatricAssociation, 2013.
Kupfer, David J. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, Les Laboratoires Servier, Sept.
2015, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4610609/.
“Selective Mutism: Signs and Symptoms.” American SpeechLanguageHearing
Association, ASHA, www.asha.org/PRPSpecificTopic.aspx?folderid=8589942812§ion=Signs_and_Symptoms.

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