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A typical setup for exposure treatments using virtual reality.

Anxiety hasn’t always been classified the way it is today. This flowchart traces how diagnoses shifted across DSM editions, from broad “neuroses” categories to the specific disorders (panic, GAD, phobias, PTSD) recognized now

Not all anxiety medications work the same way. This diagram maps how fast acting agents like psychedelics and ketamine, and slower acting monoamine based drugs, both drive brain network reorganization to produce lasting therapeutic effects.

Chronic anxiety isn’t always steady. This graph illustrates “double anxiety,” a sharp, time limited spike in symptoms triggered by a stressor, rising above a person’s baseline trait anxiety before settling back down.

Anxiety’s impact reaches far beyond mood. This diagram breaks down how it touches family relationships, physical health, personal finances, and work performance, painting a fuller picture of its personal toll.

Anxiety disorders don’t all emerge at the same life stage. Drawing on a meta-analysis of 24 studies, this chart compares estimated age of onset across conditions, from separation anxiety disorder appearing earliest to GAD emerging later in life.