Excessive amounts of caffeine can trigger the body's fight or flight response even though no real danger exists. This overactive fight or flight response can contribute to anxiety... How caffeine affects you on a particular occasion depends on how many other potential triggers are present and how intense they are.

Powerless over alcohol? No, I don’t think so - perhaps once I had a few drinks, but powerless is the wrong word. It was my power, my energy that picked up that drink and stuff it down my throat... Powerless over anxiety - yes while a drinker. No - once I had stopped medicating the anxiety.

For people with social anxiety disorder (SAD), consistent use of alcohol to cope with anxiety in social situations can develop into a lifetime battle with alcoholism.

Anxiety disorders range from feelings of uneasiness to immobilizing bouts of terror. This fact sheet briefly describes the different types of anxiety disorders.

Several of the contributing factors are: Biological Factors; Stress Overload / Lifestyle Factors; Childhood Environment; Thought Patterns; Genetic Factors.

If you feel anxious, you're not alone. In fact, one in eight Americans experience overwhelming anxiety that interferes with their daily lives.

According to a report by the National Institute of Health (NIH), anxiety is a psychological risk factor associated with heavy or problem drinking among college students.

Because obsessive thoughts are so scary and upsetting, the person with obsessive-compulsive disorder may try to avoid them or prevent harm occurring as a result.

You may have friends or relatives who are very scared of animals such as spiders, or of situations such as heights, or you yourself may have such fears.

A person who finds they worry about very many things in life they are sometimes described as having problems of Generalised Anxiety.