Some psychological disorders fly under the radar, but they're no less real for the people who suffer from them.

Celebrities and fictional characters included.

Welcome back to savvy psychologist.

I'm your host, Dr. Jade Wu,

and every week I'll help you meet life's challenges

with evidence-based research, a sympathetic ear, and zero

judgment. Today let's take a look at three anxiety-related disorders that you may not have heard of.

So most people know what it's like to feel anxious.

That tension in your muscles, those butterflies in your stomach,

and the drumming of your heart tells you that you're not calm.

And this is totally normal.

Where would we be if genuinely dangerous situations like dark alleys at night

didn't give us the hippie-gibies.

And would we take important tasks very seriously

if we didn't get nervous in the spotlight?

Like when giving a wedding toast.

Sometimes though, anxiety goes too far and gets in the way of our everyday functioning.

It can mess up our health, relationships, work, fun.

It's not hard to imagine the pain of being plagued by non-stop worries or feeling so shy as to have trouble with dating. But sometimes anxiety and anxiety related processes can

show up in more unusual ways, even ways that don't seem at first to have anything to do with emotions.

The Diagnostic and Statistics Manual Fifth Edition is the official American psychiatric

associations list of psychological disorders.

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