This week on Wellbeing we are talking with Associate Professor Lisa Lampe from the University of Newcastle about anxiety disorders. It is estimated by the WHO that 264 million adults worldwide have an anxiety disorder, making it a common condition amongst the population. Prof. Lampe has been in the medical field for three decades and it was early on in her career she found an interest in the psychological components of medicine. She has recently been supported to develop an an anxiety treatment clinic within Hunter New England Mental Health which will have a key focus on teaching, and in 2021 she was made Deputy Head of the School of Medicine and Public Health within the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle. 

In this episode, Prof. Lampe talks about the symptoms of anxiety disorders, the types of anxiety disorders, the prevalence of anxiety disorders, the rates of anxiety in younger demographics, humans and anxiety through history, the genetic underpinnings of anxiety disorders, the biological reasons why anxiety exists in the human experience, the impact on daily life anxiety disorder can have, and the support available for those with anxiety disorders.   

"Anxiety that the individual experiences as being out of proportion to the actual threat and as persistent and unshakable and as distressing and potentially impairing. If that has become a persistent problem, you know it is their most days of the week and its been their for weeks or more then it certainly may be an anxiety disorder." - Associate Professor Lisa Lampe on this episode of Wellbeing

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