Anxiety - is an emotional experience characterized by an unpleasant and persistent mental tension. Under certain circumstances, anxiety may have a beneficial influence, as when it heightens our alertness and prepares us to take affirmative action. Escalating levels of anxiety, however, increase worry, apprehension, nervousness, fear and tension to a degree where it can interfere with our ability to carry on our daily routine, or prove totally incapacitating; the heightened levels of anxiety are often accompanied by sleeplessness, impaired concentration, intrusive thoughts and by physical complaints such as headaches, and other pain and discomfort, palpitations and rapid heartbeat, jitteriness, excessive sweating, cold extremities, shortness of breath as well as dizziness and light headedness.

Panic & Phobia - panic can be regarded as an episode of intense fear or severe, acute anxiety; often episodes of panic are associated with an anticipated loss of control and the feeling of being trapped with an associated need to escape. One powerful fear often accompanying panic and the anticipated loss of control is the fear of embarrassing oneself. A frequent trigger of panic episodes is the anticipation of panic. In fact, panic is often considered a fear of fear. Phobia, or more precisely specific phobia, is an intense and persistent irrational fear or anxiety associated with a specific object, situation, or activity. In both panic and phobia, because of the intense nature of the fear and the resulting avoidance behavior, the individual experiences significant impairment in the conduct of his/her daily life.