Quick Quiz: Anxiety Disorders

Here are definitions taken (or excerpted) from Wikipedia's anxiety disorders page. Your job, should you choose to accept it, name each disorder.

And...go!

1. Sufferers typically anticipate terrifying consequences from encountering the object of their fear, which can be anything from an animal to a location to a bodily fluid to a particular situation. 

2. The specific anxiety about being in a place or situation where escape is difficult or embarrassing or where help may be unavailable.

3. Intense fear and avoidance of negative public scrutiny, public embarrassment, humiliation, or social interaction

4. An anxiety disorder that results from a traumatic experience, such as combat, natural disaster, rape, hostage situations, child abuse, bullying, or even a serious accident.

5.  The feeling of excessive and inappropriate levels of anxiety over being separated from a person or place.

6. A  disorder in which a person who is normally capable of speech does not speak in specific situations or to specific people.

How'd you do? 

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1. Specific phobia
2. Agoraphobia
3. Social anxiety disorder
4. PTSD
5. Separation anxiety disorder
6. Selective mutism