In life, people suffer from a variety of psychological disorders. Some disorders are life-altering, such as schizophrenia, while others affect people around you, such as personality disorders. All psychological disorders cause a change in the daily lifestyle of a suffering person. One type of psychological disorder is anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorder is a type of abnormal behavior characterized by irrational fear. Anxiety disorders are diagnosed twice as often in women than men and are the most common and easiest to treat. Although a person may fear something on an irrational level, the phobia affects the way they think about the situation due to classical and operant conditioning surrounding the object and the fear. Anxiety disorders are found everywhere around us in everyday life. These disorders are surrounded by stress and manifest themselves with heavy breathing, dry mouth and increased heart rate. Some people may experience feelings of being threatened, an inability to cope with the stressor causing the anxiety, and thoughts that the world is dangerous and constantly attacking them. One disorder is generalized anxiety disorder. This happens when the subject experiences generalized fears and worries, rather than focused on a specific threat. The anxiety lasts about six months and is chronic and uncontrollable. Another anxiety disorder is panic disorder. This is when the sufferer experiences a sudden, brief burst of intense apprehension that can cause heavy breathing, increased heart rate, dizziness and difficulty breathing. These outbursts are also known as panic attacks and occur after a stressful or frightening experience. The next disorder is known as obsessive-compulsive disorder. This occurs when a person f...... center of the card ......r). Now that the subject recognizes the action of fearing the spider, let's move on to operant conditioning. First you present the stimulus (fear of the spider), and the result is that the subject avoids the spider, which takes away the fear. Continuing to follow this cycle allows for negative reinforcement, which then leads to fear spiders. The cycle of fear and avoidance of spiders produces an involuntary phobia in the subject. People who suffer from anxiety disorders often struggle to complete everyday tasks. The stress that builds up within them forces anxiety to become more harmful to a person's health. Phobias place unnecessary strain on the mental and physical abilities that suffer. Even if sufferers realize that their fears are irrational and unnecessary; the connection established in the brain does not allow them to live in any other way.