Dr. Esteban Kosak 
Anxiety disorders are conditions that produce to the patient excess of worry, fear, and hyperarousal that is debilitating and counterproductive to their life.
According to many studies, it is one of the most common psychiatric conditions affecting the Western world. The estimation is that anxiety disorders affect nearly a fifth of the United States population. Also, its annual costs for treating it hit up the forty billion dollars.
Importantly, anxiety disorders can thoroughly affect the life of patients suffering from it. For example, by the year 2013, the estimation was that anxiety disorders cause the loss of nearly 27 million years of disability-adjusted life. That is to say, that this condition halted all those years that were supposed to be healthy and productive for people. Therefore, anxiety disorders are not made up; they affect and disable people as any other disease—mental health matters.
Furthermore, conditions like anxiety disorders do not come alone. Usually, the patients suffering from it have other medical problems, such as mood disorder and substance abuse. This complication of having more illness besides the primary anxiety disorder shadows the outcome for the patients.
The anxiety disorders are many. They will vary depending on their symptoms and what triggers them. Usually, there is a stressor or element that triggers the anxiety to people. It is essential for people suffering from this condition to identify what triggers the anxiety on them. This situation is particularly true for treating this condition because the cornerstone is to avoid the trigger whenever possible or controlling it. However, the treatment also consists either on medication or without any drug like psychotherapy.
Either way, what is essential is to identify people with anxiety to treat them.
This tool is an anxiety symptoms checker. The tool gathers the most up to date signs, symptoms, and risk factors for this condition. Therefore, it will aid anybody who uses it to determine the likelihood of suffering from this condition. This tool is totally free and would only take a few minutes to complete it.
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Do you consume daily any over-the-counter medication like pain killers or something else?
- Yes
- No
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Do you consume daily any herbal medication?
- Yes
- No
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Do you consume any drugs daily? (including cannabis, cocaine, amphetamine, etc.)
- Yes
- No
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Did you recently lose a close family member?
- Yes
- No
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Did you have in the past months a considerable accident?
- Yes
- No
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Do you consume vast amounts of coffee daily?
- Yes
- No
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Do you are afraid of particular settings like stores and public transportation?
- Yes
- No
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Did you have a traumatic event in the past that involved an embarrassment?
- Yes
- No
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Do you are between 10 and 20 years?
- Yes
- No
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When you have a panic attack, does your chest hurt?
- Yes
- No
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When you have a panic attack, do you find it difficult to breathe?
- Yes
- No
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Previous both of those symptoms, did you start to feel fear or discomfort?
- Yes
- No
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All this moment usually lengths about 10 minutes?
- Yes
- No
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When you have a panic attack, do you feel an increased level of fear?
- Yes
- No
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When you have a panic attack, do you feel your heart pounding?
- Yes
- No
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When you have a panic attack, do you start to sweat a lot?
- Yes
- No
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When you have a panic attack, do you have shakings?
- Yes
- No
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When you have a panic attack, do you have shortness of breath?
- Yes
- No
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When you have a panic attack, do you feel like choking?
- Yes
- No
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When you have a panic attack, do you nausea or stomach pain?
- Yes
- No
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When you have a panic attack, do you feel dizzy, unsteady, lightheaded, or just faint?
- Yes
- No
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When you have a panic attack, do you fell chill or heat sensations?
- Yes
- No
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When you have a panic attack, do you feel numbness or tingling sensations in your body?
- Yes
- No
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When you have a panic attack, do you feel detached from yourself or, like reality changed (unreality)?
- Yes
- No
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When you have a panic attack, do you feel like you are losing control or going crazy?
- Yes
- No
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When you have a panic attack, do you fear of dying?
- Yes
- No
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Have you had any of these other symptoms? (headache, cold hands, diarrhea, impossibility to sleep, fatigue, or intrusive thoughts)
- Yes
- No
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Did you had a panic attack with all these symptoms and remained at least a month with fear of having it again?
- Yes
- No
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Do you tend to avoid the sites that trigger those symptoms?
- Yes
- No
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Do you tend to avoid the situations that you know will trigger those symptoms?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with asthma?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with heart rhythms problems (arrhythmias)?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with hypertension or previous heart attacks?
- Yes
- No
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