People can have one of four different types anxiety disorders: affective, behavioral, cognitive, and somatic.

1. Affective has characteristics including nervousness, uneasiness, panic, and irritability.
2. Behavioral includes motor tension, compulsive or nervous actions, voice and speech cues (shakiness or strain), and constant watchfulness and scanning.
3. Cognitive includes obsessive worrying and thinking, confusion, lack of concentration, a feeling of impending doom, fear of dying, and fear of going crazy by loss of self-constraint.
4. Somatic anxiety behaviors include physical problems like dry mouth, dizziness, sweaty hands, stomach problems, and pain or tightness in the chest.

There are also four types of depressive disorders: affective, behavioral, cognitive, and social/interpersonal.

1. Affective includes anhedonia (feelings of apathy, not caring, boredom, or meaninglessness), and dysphoria (feelings of sorrow, dejection, exhaustion, bitterness, or suicide).
2. Behavioral or vegetative typically include loss of sleep or appetite, retardation or speeding up in psychomotor areas, no attraction in sex, energy loss, and a self-destructive behavior.
3. The cognitive area includes a feeling of hopelessness or cynicism, no ambition, brooding, and a general susceptibility of the cognition process.
4. Social and interpersonal are the last psychiatric signs and symptoms, and they include withdrawal, selfishness, passiveness, bad temper, resentment, and a lack of healthy relationships and general tolerance.