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Mental Health Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders are a group of mental health conditions defined by excessive, persistent fear, worry or apprehension that is disproportionate to actual threat and that impairs daily functioning. The category encompasses generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, specific phobias, social anxiety disorder and rel…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 115× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2574-612X 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Anxiety disorders are a group of mental health conditions defined by excessive, persistent fear, worry or apprehension that is disproportionate to actual threat and that impairs daily functioning. The category encompasses generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, specific phobias, social anxiety disorder and related presentations, and frequently overlaps with depressive and trauma-related conditions. Symptoms span cognitive features such as rumination and difficulty concentrating, emotional distress, and somatic arousal including tachycardia, restlessness, muscle tension and disturbed sleep, reflecting dysregulation of fear-processing circuits involving the amygdala and prefrontal cortex and of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal stress response. Anxiety often arises in the context of physical illness, chronic stress, social adversity and traumatic experience, and is commonly comorbid with post-traumatic stress and mood disorders. Assessment relies on structured clinical interview and validated rating scales, while management combines psychotherapeutic approaches such as cognitive and cognitive-analytic therapy and mindfulness-based interventions with pharmacotherapy where indicated. The peer-reviewed studies gathered here address mental health across challenging circumstances, including psychological responses to serious medical illness, the consequences of emotional repression for wellbeing, trauma-focused and psychosocial interventions, and the impact of social and environmental stressors, illustrating how anxiety and allied distress are characterised and treated in applied clinical and community settings.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Dream theory from the perspective of Islam

Asadzandi MinooCorresponding author
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Nursing Faculty, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research Cited by 19 doi:10.14302/issn.2574-612X.ijpr-18-2243

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 115 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research (ISSN 2574-612X).

Journal editorial board
Karim Sedky · United States Tullio Scrimali · Italy DAMIANA SCUTERI · Italy

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