Is anxiety disorder a mental illness?

Nowadays, people are under increasing pressure at work and face various competitions every day; some people need to repay mortgages, change car loans, etc., and are under very heavy pressure in life; some people are always anxious because they have done something that goes against their conscience. Over time, there will be a tendency towards anxiety disorder, not only will the person become irritable and suspicious, but some people may even have paranoia, as if they are suffering from a mental illness. So, is anxiety disorder a mental illness?

The pre-onset personality of anxiety disorder patients is mostly timid, self-abased, suspicious, hesitant and hesitant, and they cannot adapt quickly to new things and new environments. The cause of the disease is mental factors, such as being unable to adapt to a stressful environment, encountering misfortune, or having difficulty taking on more complex and difficult work.

When normal people face difficult or dangerous tasks, or have a premonition that an unfavorable situation or danger is about to occur, they may experience anxiety (an unpleasant state of tension without a clear cause). This anxiety usually does not constitute a disease but is a normal psychological state. Anxiety is not a bad thing. Anxiety can often motivate you to muster up the strength to deal with an impending crisis (or in other words, anxiety is a positive stress response instinct).

Anxiety symptoms only occur when the degree and duration of anxiety exceed a certain range, which will have the opposite effect - preventing people from coping and handling the crisis in front of them, and even hindering their normal life. Most of the time, you may feel anxious for no clear reason; in fact, you can't do anything.

Anxiety symptoms are also seen in affective psychosis, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, hysteria, organic confusion state, hyperthyroidism, etc.

It can be seen from this that anxiety disorder can also be classified as a mental illness. If the anxiety disorder is more serious, it will seriously affect a person's physical and mental health, thereby affecting people's normal life and work. Therefore, after becoming ill, you must pay attention to timely treatment, and this disease is much easier to cure than other mental illnesses.