Causes Of Academic Anxiety Among Tertiary Institution Students
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN METROPOLIS OF KWARA STATE]

Types of Anxiety
    Dada (2005) described the types or forms of anxiety are in various types amongst which there the following:
Anxiety disorders
Generalized disorders
Separation anxiety disorder
Social anxiety disorder
Phobias, obsessions and compulsions
Anxiety disturbance
Anxiety equivalent
Anxiety Neurosis or Neurotics anxiety and anxiety tolerance.
    Anxiety disorders: - These entail a group of disorders in which unpleasant feelings of stress, uneasiness, tension and worry is either the predominant disturbance or is experienced in confronting a dreaded object or situation or in resting obsessions or compulsions.
    Anxiety disorders cause overwhelming fear and inability to cope with any daily chore. Anxiety disorders can completely daily chore; anxiety disorders can completely paralyze and disable the victims. Anxiety disorder leaves you unable to cope with daily life due to abnormal fears in lives.
    Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD): refers to constant yet unrealistic worry about many areas of one’s daily life, people with general anxiety experience ongoing, exaggerated tension that interferes with daily functioning, and also worries incessantly abut money, health, family and the school place through there are no visible sign no suggest a need to worry. Generalized anxiety disorder suffers are unable to relax and suffer in sowing and have many physical symptoms such as fatigue trembling, muscle tension headaches, irritability and hit flashes, found by NIMH (National Institute for Mental Health).
    Social Anxiety Disorder: - Involve a pre-occupation of embarrassment and ridicule with tasks and diverse as eating a meal to delivering a speech. It causes people to feel dread at the possibility of being humiliating during he expectation of negative evaluation by others.
    Separation Anxiety disorder: - (Anxiety disorders of childhood and Adolescence). A general category of mental disorders seen in children and adolescence in which anxiety is the predominant feature. This category includes. Avoidant disorder of childhood and adolescence, over anxious disorders did separation anxiety disorder.
    Phobias: A phobia is an uncontrollable, irrational, persistence fear of a specific object situation or activity.
    Obsessions and Compulsions: Obsessions are frequently occurring irrational thought that cause great anxiety but that can not be controlled through reasoning style. Compulsive behaviours can sometimes take up more than and how a day, thus becoming excessively disruptive of normal daily routines and social relationships.
    Anxiety Disturbance: - This is a condition marked by a high level of apprehension and tension, with extreme sensibility self – consciousness, and morbid fears.
    Anxiety Equivalent: - A neo-psychoanalytic phrase for the physiological reactions due to anxiety but without any subjective feeling of anxiety, for instance, profuse sweating but feeling calm and relaxed.
    Anxiety Neurosis or Neurotic Anxiety: - Feelings of impending disorder companied by such symptoms as difficulty is making decisions insomnia, loss of appetite and heart palpitations, chronic feelings of this kind may occasionally erupt into acute panic attack.
    Anxiety Tolerance: This is the ability to cope with high level of anxiety without displaying it and yet, the individual still functions relating normally.
    According to the psychoanalytic theory, anxiety is divided into three types these are objective anxiety neurotic anxiety, and moral anxiety.    
    Objective anxiety is a realistic response to danger in the environment; neuro anxiety stems from an unconscious conflict within the organism while moral anxiety is derived from a threat from the super-ego or as a result of being punished by one’s conscience. Covey (1995) and Berne (1990) also explained that the reality anxiety could be due to fear or danger from an external stimuli and the degree of anxiety at that stage is proportionate to the degree of the real threatening event or situation that the individual is facing. Expatiating further, Covey (1995) described neurotic anxiety as the fear that the situation will get out of hand and cause or do something that would get the individual punished and this is often characterized by persistent and diffuses tension and feeling of apprehension which may lead to panic. Also another connotation of moral anxiety is that it is the fear of one’s own conscious and a person with developed conscience tends to feel guilty when he or she does something contrary to the expected moral code (Ibrahim, 2005).