severe anxiety

collocation in English

meaningsofsevereandanxiety

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severe
adjective
uk
/sɪˈvɪər/us
/səˈvɪr/
causing very great pain, difficulty, worry, damage, etc.; ...
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anxiety
noun
uk
/æŋˈzaɪ.ə.ti/us
/æŋˈzaɪ.ə.t̬i/
an uncomfortable feeling of nervousness or worry about something that is happening or might happen in ...
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(Definition ofsevereandanxietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The crowd's energy screamed a tweaked anticipation but the mass amounts of uniforms - police, security, ambulance and fire marshal - causedsevereanxiety.
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Importantly, several other psychiatric conditions, including the agitated form of major depressive disorder andsevereanxietydisorders, would also fall in the negatively valenced, high-arousal category.
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However, the data suggest the possibility that smoking cessation programmes, apart from reducing mortality and morbidity due to physical disease, might reduce societal burden due tosevereanxietydisorders.
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If replicated, these results might encourage both clinicians and health care administrators to increase efforts aimed at the detection of potentiallysevereanxietyamong patients seeking treatment for asthma.
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Those who suffer "existential vacuum," that is, those who don't find meaning in their lives and cannot be guided by it, can experiencesevereanxietyand depression.
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Some of them have suffered a mild psychological upset and others have suffered from asevereanxiety state which has necessitated treatment by a psychiatrist.
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Inevitably it induces in those who are able to see beyond the end of their nose a mood ofsevereanxietyand depression.
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To discourage the improper use of benzodiazepines, these products are licensed only for short-term use in patients withsevereanxietyor insomnia.
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Yet in this year of grace, they have been caused distress, justified anger,severeanxietyand considerable inconvenience.
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Violent crime createssevereanxiety.
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In middle school, he was diagnosed with asevereanxietydisorder known as selective mutism, as well as major depressive disorder.
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Abrupt withdrawal may lead to a severe benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome characterised by seizures, psychosis, severe insomnia, andsevereanxiety.
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This often results in mild tosevereanxietyand/or depression.
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Other students withsevereanxietywill often experience panic attacks.
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Despite diagnoses of post-traumatic encephalopathy, chronicsevereanxietyreaction, and early lumbosacral arthritis, her appeals were denied.
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First, the emotional fatigue that so often accompaniessevereanxietyleads to one's emotions being worn out, thus leading to apathy.
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Benzodiazepines possess anti-anxiety properties and can be useful for the short-term treatment ofsevereanxiety.
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