Does Childhood Anxiety Disorder Predict Adult Panic Disorder?

This is always the question for the psychiatrists who deal with the problem of Anxiety Disorder among children and adults with Panic Disorder. This question is very much discussed among the psychiatrists and various researches have been conducted on this topic. The results, which have come out of research was very confusing and was not able to give a particular solution. It is found to be impossible to find out an answer to this question because the researchers have to depend on individual patients and various kinds of symptoms that are specific to each patient.

Anxiety Disorder among the children is very common, but in the childhood they are not able to express their anxieties correctly. There is ever the communication gap with the child and adult doctor. Sometimes a proper suggestion of the adult may be effective to a particular child if he or she is not afraid of them. As the child grows up he or she may grow out of this problem. In some cases the anxiety might be an inborn problem and a proper diagnosis is required for that.

Without a correct diagnosis the Anxiety Disorder of childhood may result in adult Panic Disorder or Agoraphobia. Anxiety affected children may feel agoraphobic in difficult situations in which they feel trapped. This situation might happen on a crowded road, in a bus or plane journey, outside the home or while traveling in a car.

To find out a satisfactory answer to the question whether childhood Anxiety disorder predicts adult Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia or not, the researchers find the child who has Separation Anxiety Disorder in his or her childhood are more likely to develop Anxiety Disorder and Agoraphobia in adulthood. Although there is no specific relation found between the Separation Anxiety Disorder and adult Panic Disorder, the childhood Separation Anxiety Disorder is the cause of adult Panic Disorder.

Without proper observation and treatment most of the anxiety-affected children suffer from agoraphobia in their adolescence period. Besides the separation anxiety there are other childhood anxieties, but the researchers find that other anxieties of children are not generally the cause of adult anxiety. It is not that adult Panic Disorder is only caused by childhood anxiety, rather they observed that the child who has been treated in his childhood for Anxiety Disorder and the disease could not be cured the potential of anxiety developing further in adulthood is greater. Anxiety can develop at any time any place, but it also can be cured at any age, any time.