User:B137/Daytime Anxiety Disorder

Daytime Anxiety Disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by high levels of anxiety during the daytime hours, and in which anxiety levels subdue at evening or when it becomes dark out. Daytime anxiety disorder may be compared to Seasonal Affect Disorder (SAD), in which symptoms of anxiety are predominantly present during the summer while symptoms of depression are felt during the winter; only summer and winter are replaced by day and night, respectively. Thus, daytime anxiety disorder may be more severe in warm climates or during the summer, and manifest itself more like major depressive disorder during the winter. Hence, there is comorbidity between daytime anxiety disorder and seasonal affect disorder. Similarly to seasonal affect disorder, daytime anxiety disorder may have evolutionary origins wherein there is so much more possibility in the daytime/summertime that one suffers from anxiety stemmed from feeling as though they cannot possibly make good enough use their time by selecting any one activity. This may lead to some degree of increased activity in the evening or nighttime, even insomnia as during this time which is less suitable for most activities, one may feel as though they are making good use of their time no matter what they are doing.

Daytime anxiety disorder may also characterized by an especially high level of anxiety and/or a hyper feeling upon awakening, which may be partially due to the increased likelihood of waking up in the middle of the day with the immediate feeling of having wasted time, due to the nocturnal tendencies of the disorder.

The term "daytime anxiety" used to refer to any form of persistent anxiety or anxiety symptoms that are experienced on a daily basis but not necessarily related to the daytime or light hours themselves differs from daytime anxiety disorder, in which daytime refers literally to the light hours of the day as opposed to the nighttime hours, not day as in a 24 hour period, wherewith it is always day. Thenceforth, more properly, the former should be refered to rather as daily anxiety than daytime anxiety.

Daytime Anxiety Disorder is not yet defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV).


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