Anxiety Disorder Not Otherwise Specified

This category includes disorders with prominent anxiety or phobic avoidance that do not meet criteria for any specific Anxiety Disorder, Adjustment Disorder With Anxiety, or Adjustment Disorder With Mixed Anxiety and Depressed Mood. Examples include

1. Mixed anxiety-depressive disorder: clinically significant symptoms of anxiety and depression, but the criteria are not met for either a specific Mood Disorder or a specific Anxiety Disorder

2. Clinically significant social phobic symptoms that are related to the social impact of having a general medical condition or mental disorder (e.g., Parkinson's disease, dermatological conditions, Stuttering, Anorexia Nervosa, Body Dysmorphic Disorder)

3. Situations in which the disturbance is severe enough to warrant a diagnosis of an Anxiety Disorder but the individual fails to report enough symptoms for the full criteria for any specific Anxiety Disorder to have been met; for example, an individual who reports all of the features of Panic Disorder Without Agoraphobia except that the Panic Attacks are all limited-symptom attacks

4. Situations in which the clinician has concluded that an Anxiety Disorder is present but is unable to determine whether it is primary, due to a general medical condition, or substance induced

Look also: Anxiety Disorders: Introduction Panic Attack Agoraphobia Panic Disorder Agoraphobia Without History of Panic Disorder Specific Phobia (formerly Simple Phobia) Social Phobia (Social Anxiety Disorder) Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Acute Stress Disorder Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Includes Overanxious Disorder of Childhood) Anxiety Disorder Due to a General Medical Condition Substance-Induced Anxiety Disorder