Effects of Anxiety Disorders on Learning

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This paper examines the problem of anxiety disorders in students and how this affects their ability to learn and develop socially on par with their peers. It discusses various treatments, such as medication and therapy, and concludes that the best form of treatment is therapy to help these students overcome their condition.

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"Anxiety disorders can make learning very difficult for students. Their effects can be socially, emotionally, and even intellectually paralyzing for periods of time extending from minutes to months. Unlike attention disorders, anxiety disorders may not directly effect the learning process. However, they do directly effect the social and emotional comfort of the student, and lead to the student being unable to properly begin and continue that learning process. Anxiety disorders frequently occur in tangent with other learning problems, social problems, and psychiatric problems. In particular, anxiety has been correlated with ADD/ADHD, with depression, and with verbal and nonverbal learning disorders. Anxiety may in many cases result from these problems, though it may also be a precursor. Either way, such comorbidity makes the effects on learning of either problem far worse. So anxiety disorders may both make it difficult for the student to be comfortable enough to learn, or worsen other learning barriers. Additionally, it has been suggested that anxiety disorders may be related more directly to difficulty with memory processing."

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