Anxiety disorders are a class of psychiatric disorders that are highly prevalent and disabling [13-15,33]. Most develop during childhood with a tendency to persist into adulthood if they are not treated properly [17,18]. Nevertheless, anxiety is a symptom also prevalent in most other psychiatric disorders [15], especially in mood disorders in depression [18].
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