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This article provides an overview of anxiety disorders, how to identify them, and what measures can be implemented to address them since medical professionals are on the frontlines to help older adults with mental health issues. Anxiety Disorders. Anxiety disorders are of serious concern. While the state of anxietyâan experience of tension and apprehensionâis an ordinary response to a threat or danger, excessive anxiety that causes distress or interferes with daily life is not a normal part of the aging process.
Therefore, the difference between normal anxiety and abnormal anxiety is this: anxiety is considered normal and adaptive when it serves to improve peoples' functioning or wellbeing. In contrast, abnormal anxiety is a chronic condition that impairs peoples' functioning and interferes with their well-being.This impairment causes them significant distress. There are specific symptoms that accompany each anxiety disorder.hese three factors-duration, intensity, and frequency-distinguish normal, adaptive anxiety from abnormal, pathological anxiety. As such, abnormal anxiety is different from normal anxiety because it is disproportionate to the situation that elicited the anxious response.