Anxiety disorders on the rise

If talking to new people frightens you, if you worry constantly, or have spontaneous panic attacks, you may have an anxiety disorder, America's most common mental illness, says Temple psychologist Rick Heimberg, director of the university's Adult Anxiety Clinic.

"Each year more than 23,000,000 Americans suffer from anxiety disorders, mental illnesses characterized by fear and anxiety that appear for no apparent reason," states Helmberg, noting that social phobia and panic, post-traumatic stress, and obsessive compulsive disorders all are forms of anxiety conditions.

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