Anxiety disorder that involves the feeling of excessive and inappropriate levels of anxiety over being separated from a person to whom the individual has a strong emotional attachment or place.
My diagnosis was the same for both kids: separationanxietydisorder, or SAD.
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The prevalence of separationanxietydisorder in adult outpatients with panic disorder is discussed.
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Other consistently significant predictors of lifetime separationanxietydisorder included female gender, retrospectively reported childhood adversities, and lifetime traumatic events.
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These predictors were largely comparable for separationanxietydisorder onsets in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood and across country income groups.
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When she was four, we took her to a child psychiatrist, who told us that Serena had separationanxietydisorder.