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Social anxiety
Some people develop great anxiety when around other people. This type of anxiety may take many forms. Sometimes the anxiety is about specific social situations such as public speaking. Sometimes social anxiety is about being in a closed space with other people, like on a train or in a lift. Others fear behaving in an embarrassing or humiliating way and this can lead to withdrawal from social contact as well as avoidance of specific social situations such as using public toilets or eating out.

Anticipatory anxiety
Anticipatory anxiety is when a person experiences increased levels of anxiety when thinking about an event or situation in the future. The negative anticipation of an event can last for weeks or months prior to an occasion. People with this type of anxiety specifically focus on what they think might happen, often with catastrophic predictions about the event. Anxiety levels increase as a person magnifies negative possibilities in their mind about the future.

Health anxiety
Health anxiety is defined as an obsessive preoccupation with the idea or the thought that a person is currently (or soon will be) experiencing a physical illness. The most common health anxieties tend to centre on conditions like cancer and HIV.

Existential anxiety
Some people become immersed in anxious ideas relating to the meaning and purpose of life. Thoughts about the purpose of life and existence can lead to fear, doubt and feelings of pointlessness or insignificance in many people.

Common symptoms of anxiety
Anxiety can affect individuals in different ways. Some people experience anxiety mainly through psychological and emotional symptoms, while others experience a wide range of physical effects. Anxiety often has a self-perpetuating quality, because the physical symptoms of anxiety can be so distressing that they can make people even more psychologically anxious.

The psychological effects of anxiety include: