Compared with health controls, people with anxiety disorders experience impairment in various functional domains.1 Disability was the highest for people with multiple anxiety disorders and for people with social anxiety disorder, particularly in the cognition, social interaction, life activities and participation domains.1

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  1. Hendriks SM, Spijker J, Licht CM, et al. Disability in anxiety disorders. J Affect Disord 2014; 166: 227–233.