The Shealy Insitute and Wellness Center reports as many as 100 million Americans suffer from anxiety disorder.

The numbers are conflicting, the message is clear Anxiety and Panic disorder are at epidemic proportions.

84.8% Anxiety disorders independent from withdrawal and intoxication were strongly and consistently related to alcohol and drug use disorders. NESARC 2004.

National Institutes of health reports, Research now shows that such long-term activation of the stress system can have a hazardous, even lethal effect on the body, increasing risk of obesity, heart disease, depression, and a variety of other illnesses.

Time magazine's June 6, 1983 cover story called stress "The Epidemic of the Eighties" and referred to it as our leading health problem; there can be little doubt that the situation has progressively worsened since then.

It has been estimated that 75 - 90 percent of all visits to primary care physicians are for stress related problems. The American Institute of Stress.