It seems like you hear it all the time from nearly every one you know – “I’m SO stressed out!There are many things that put pressure on people today. Those pressures cause stress and anxiety, and often we are ill-equipped to deal with those stressors that trigger anxiety and other feelings that can make us sick. Literally, sick.

The statistics are staggering. One in every eight Americans age 18-54 suffers from an anxiety disorder. This totals over 19 million people! Research conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health has shown that anxiety disorders are the number one mental health problem among American women and are second only to alcohol and drug abuse by men.

Women tend to suffer from stress and anxiety almost twice as much as men. Anxiety disorders happen to be the most common mental illness in America, even surpassing depression in the number of people affected. The most common mental health concern for adults over the age of 65 is anxiety. Anxiety disorders cost the U.S. $46.6 billion a year. Anxiety sufferers see an average of five doctors before being successfully diagnosed.

Unfortunately, stress and anxiety go hand in hand. In fact, one of the major symptoms of stress is anxiety. And stress accounts for 80 percent of all illnesses either directly or indirectly.

In fact, stress is more dangerous than we thought. You’ve probably heard that it can raise your blood pressure, increasing the likelihood of a stroke in the distant future, but recently a health insurance brochure claimed that 90 percent of visits to a primary care physician were stress-related disorders.

Check out PanicandAnxietyAttacks.net. It is an information and resource site dedicated to the purpose of educating patients, families, caregivers and the community at large about different types of anxiety and panic disorders. Their goal is to help improve the lives of those that are effected by these types of disorders.