Between 25 40% of the population has an episode of anxiety throughout his life.

• Anxiety disorders involve a huge social burden of disability and social cost

• 70-80% of young people with anti-social behaviour, suicide attempts, violent behaviors or drug abuse disorders suffer from disorders limit personality.

• Linked to family and work stress and anxiety are more concern to the scientific community.

• Becoming unemployed, the man enters in a free and competitive market for which it is not ready. In these cases it is usual that the male fall into a depression, suicide attempt, consumption of alcohol, violence and myocardial infarctions.

Bilbao, September 2009.- Stress is an experience of psychological instability as a response to external environmental factors. This disease is a source of pathology and produces a short, medium and long term impact. In addition, you can damage the brain at the molecular level and from there, extend their damage to the rest of the body. This is the starting point from which José Luis Carrasco, head of section of the service of Psychiatry and director of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos personality disorders unit, performs an analysis on the relationship of this with affection and the different types of personality of the individual.

This complex interplay is the breeding ground of borderline personality disorder, a pathology that occurs in 70-80% of young people with antisocial behaviors, suicide attempts, violent behaviors or substance abuse disorders. The origin of it is in internal dysfunctions of the affective and emotional balance, and how to integrate in an appropriate manner the experiences and information that is perceived in the environment, which ultimately can be defined as an emotional immaturity and relationship. These shortcomings lead to a loss of self-control, as well as the own sense of identity. These internal anomalies are the keys of the disorder and the aim to solve for the treatments that you pretend to be effective ”.

Anxiety disorders are psychiatric illness more prevalent among the general population. Indeed, between 25-40% of the population has an episode of anxiety throughout his life. Anxiety and stress appear as two sides of the same coin. Anxiety is the psychological aspect of stress and it is the somatic aspect, the biological side of anxiety. Typically, anxiety and/or stress allow the individual to interact with their environment, but when they become pathological can generate the individual suffering, disability to cope with everyday life and an increase in the risk of suicide and fall into addiction. In this regard, stress and anxiety linked to family and work are those that concern most ”, said José Luis Carrasco.

In the words of the expert, anxiety disorders involve a huge social burden in terms of disability and social costs, due inter alia to usually appear early (in adolescence), they are very persistent, they produce much suffering, demand an important social-health care, cause frequent off work, etc. ”

this issue in keeping with one of the major concerns of our time: the crisis. José Luis Carrasco understands that the crisis syndrome affects all branches of medicine, after various symptoms underlying anxiety and distress, whose origin is the uncertainty about the future ”.

The specialist distinguishes between two types of conditions. On the one hand of the individual who has not yet lost their jobs and is located in a more normal situation, whose main problems are dizziness, headaches, lack of sleep or appetite, and pain. On the other hand, are affected directly by the crisis, either by have lost work either because they are in a critical situation. In this case there is a basis of hopelessness that leads to symptoms of depression, despondency, tiredness or lack of interest ”.

Another issue the less funny is that this syndrome of the crisis ” affects more men than women. Some recent studies have shown that women and men react very differently to stressful situations and against him than previously thought, women are better prepared to deal with great social changes that are very stressful ”. The explanation for this is based on the personal reality of men, according to José Luis Carrasco. Becoming unemployed, comes in a free and competitive market and, in many cases, is not ready for that, it is unable to fight, having initiative or set up a small working. In these cases it is usual that the male fall into a depression, suicide attempt, consumption of alcohol, violence and myocardial infarctions ”.