Good afternoon, everyone.

It is Dr. Niagara again with our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

This week has been really cool.

I've really had a good time, FaceTiming with a lot of people, phone calls.

A lot of you guys are flying in from different parts of the country for me to do

NeuroSikevail on you or family members.

So it's a very humbling experience.

And I'm again grateful for this opportunity to impart whatever knowledge I can from the perspective

of my educational background and training and just professional clinical experience.

So borderline personality has been an incredibly popular topic and we will revisit it but today we're

going to talk about anxiety it comes to us all no one is immune to the consequences, the ideations, the physical sensations of something that is very nebulous.

And I've repeatedly said that mental health really doesn't have a face.

Sometimes anxiety does.

Because people can look terrified.

Now, from a diagnostic perspective, we have generalized anxiety disorder.

We have obsessive-compulsive disorder, which is different than obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, and that'll be for a different topic, different session. We have panic disorder. We have agoraphobia. But the key in understanding

anxiety and treating anxiety is being able from a treatment perspective.

Now, again, doing diagnostics, I could come up with whether somebody has an anxiety disorder

or whether they don't.

And you'll see it with, as I said before, depression, anxiety, or call the common colds of mental health, mental illness.

And they generally go hand in hand.

The important part in treating any type of anxiety disorder is to break the anxiety down into a more specific component. Someone will say,

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