2013). STAI scores were significantly increased in AVP patients compared with controls. The present results are insistent with that in SAD (Tamura et al. 2013). These results are also consist with borderline personality disorder, obsessive‐compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and MDD (Tanaka et al. 2012a,b; Kawano et al. 2013; Inoue et al. 2015). Here, AVP is linked to panic disorder.