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Anxiety Disorders

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Anxiety disorders involve excessive fear or anxiety that is out of proportion to the actual threat and impairs functioning.

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A person avoids a promotion because the required travel produces anticipatory anxiety for weeks.

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Anxiety is adaptive at ordinary levels. The disorders are defined by proportion, duration, and impairment.