Anxiety, Panic Attacks, and Social Disorders in University Students

This report delves into the complexities of anxiety and panic attacks, focusing on their symptoms, causes, and effects, particularly within the context of university students. It defines anxiety as a natural response to stress, differentiating it from panic attacks, which are characterized by sudden, intense fear and discomfort. The report explores the physical and mental symptoms of both conditions, including breathing issues, dizziness, and feelings of fear. It highlights the impact of anxiety on learning and social behavior, emphasizing the role of factors like age, gender, and social environment in influencing these experiences. The report also examines the influence of family and college environments on youth mental health, and the importance of mental health services for students. Finally, it provides insights into treatment options, referencing studies and findings related to these conditions and their management.

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Anxiety and Panic Attack

Anxiety, Panic Attack and Social Disorder
4) What is panic attack and its symptoms?
• Panic attack is sudden feeling of fear and stress,
that is unpredictable to measure and include fear,
of something to the person, panic attack has no
frequency and it affect the mental and physical
health balance in deep (Paulus et al. 2015).
• A person feels distinct episodes of discomfort,
intense fear, and negative feelings about
something.
• Some common symptoms recorded in a person are
 Breathing issues Feeling dizzy
 Hot or chill flushes
 Nausea Palpitations
 Chest pain
• Anxiety affect learning in the class and behaviour
with others at home, college and everywhere
1) What is Anxiety?
• Anxiety is defined as natural response of one’s
body to the stress; it is the feeling of fear and
unease towards something or fearing to the
apprehension (Leopold & Backenstrass 2015).
• Anxiety is common and natural but regular attack
of fear or unease can result in panic attack of
anxiety and this can lead many types of disorders
and depression in students.
General Anxiety Disorder and Social behaviour Panic attack and social behaviour
Generalized Anxiety Disorder is relevant to the overthinking of a student about
upcoming situations. Persistent and excessive worry about any things cause GAD Anxiety leads stress and panic attack in the body causing issues to the
suffering students, panic attack can occur suddenly or regularly in the body.
Student suffering from GAD are extra conscious about the situations near
them. They predict everything in serous manner and overthink over any issue.
This overthinking leads challenges to their social behaviour with in the
society and college they face difficulties to communicate with others.
Stress and panic attack due to anxiety found common in the people in the
present time. A survey in the UK presented that approximately 85% of the UK
adults are suffering from the stress regularly, 39% adults admit the stress sue to
regular working and feel uncomfortable in the social interaction (Fleming
2016).
7) Effect of panic attack and GAD on Social Behaviour of youth
8) Conclusion
• Anxiety is an uncomfortable feeling of vague or mental disturbance in individual. Anxiety leads severe issues in students and it can be vary from
person to person, panic attacks in human cause issues to the mental and physical health. Youth and student feel more stress than others.
• Age, gender, class, status, and society play a major role in causing panic attack and general anxiety in a person. Social factors, family atmosphere,
and positive working culture at the job can help an individual to overcome from the stress and anxiety (Oswalt et al. 2020).
• GAD and Panic attacks are unpredictable and not measurable but deeply affect the personal and social life of a human.
• Mental health care services are useful for the students because it helps them to deal their stress
• Family environment and college atmosphere collectively affect the youth’s thinking and negativity at any palace leads stress and anxiety in them.
6) Panic attack in anxiety
References
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5) Anxiety in University Students
• Students face stress and anxiety during learning of the new things in
the collage. According the findings of Mayo clinic, many symptoms
represent anxiety and stress in the university students like
Nervousness or sense of danger, sweating and trembling, inability to
focus and concentrate to the lectures (Fleming 2016). Social anxiety
disorder is generally popular in the teenage Major factors leading
stress and anxiety in the university students were
o Change in their schedule
o Family expectation from the students
o Inability to perform in the course Health issues
o Challenges to manage in diversified culture
o Fear of being fun by other students
• Student facing mental health disorder need effective environment of
learning and stakeholder of a college need to invest in the services
improvement. These services need to provide effective mental health
care services.