If they were actually in danger, they would just protect themselves as best they could, and be better off for it. With an anxiety disorder, people get afraid when they're not in danger. Their struggle to protect themselves from fear leads them down a path of increasing trouble. That's the anxiety trick.
Diseases Home. There are more than 80 types of autoimmune diseases, which are also known as autoimmune disorders. Autoimmune diseases can affect almost any organ or body system. In many people with autoimmune disease, the first symptoms are fatigue, muscle aches, and low fever.ypes of autoimmune diseases that affect the digestive tract (including the mouth) are: 1  Autoimmune hepatitis. 2  Behcet'behÃ§et s. 3  Disease'crohn s. 4  Disease primary biliary. 5  Cirrhosis. 6  Scleroderma ulcerative. 7  Colitis celiac.  disease
1 People with a family history â Some autoimmune diseases run in families, such as lupus and multiple sclerosis. 2  It is also common for different types of autoimmune diseases to affect different members of a single family. 3  Inheriting certain genes can make it more likely to get an autoimmune disease. Some autoimmune diseases, like diabetes and thyroid disease, can affect the body's ability to make substances it needs to function. 2  With diabetes, insulin injections are needed to regulate blood sugar. 3  Thyroid hormone replacement restores thyroid hormone levels in people with underactive thyroid.