Symptoms of Anxiety
By: Paul FryattTotal Views: 91, Word Count: 538,
We are all aware of what anxiety feels like. Our heart pounds before a tough exam or a big presentation. During a blind date, we get butterflies in our stomach. We worry over family problems or feel nervous at the prospect of asking the boss for a raise in salary.
Nevertheless, if fears and worries are preventing you from living your life the way you’d like to, then you might be suffering from an anxiety disorder. The good news is that, there are several anxiety treatments and self help strategies which could help in reducing your symptoms of anxiety and take back the control of your life.
Understanding Anxiety Disorders
It’s typical to worry and feel anxious or scared when under pressure or facing a stressful condition. Anxiety is the body’s natural response to threat, an automatic alarm which goes off when we feel endangered.
Though it might be unlikable, anxiety isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, anxiety could help us stay alert and focused, incite us to action and inspire us to solve problems. However, when anxiety is steady or overpowering, when it interferes with your activities and relationships, that’s when you’ve crossed the line from usual anxiety into the terrain of anxiety disorders.
Signs and Symptoms of Anxiety Disorders
As anxiety disorders are a collection of related conditions rather than a single disorder, they could look very different from individual to individual. One person might suffer from severe anxiety attacks that strike without warning, while another panics at the thought of mingling at a party. Someone else could struggle with a disabling fear of driving or unmanageable invasive thoughts. Yet another might live in a constant state of tension, worrying about anything and everything.
Regardless of their different forms, all anxiety disorders share one major symptom, i.e. unrelenting or severe fear or worry in situations where most individuals wouldn’t feel threatened.
Emotional Symptoms of Anxiety
In addition to the primary symptoms of excessive and illogical fear and worry, other general emotional symptoms of anxiety include:
· Feelings of fear or uneasiness
· Trouble in concentrating
· Feeling tense and jumpy
· Expecting the worst
· Irritability and restlessness
· Watching for signs of danger
· Feeling like your mind’s gone blank
Physical Symptoms of Anxiety
Anxiety is more than just an emotion. As a creation of the body’s fight or flight response, anxiety involves a large variety of physical symptoms. Due to the various physical symptoms, anxiety sufferers often mistake their disorder for a medical illness. They might visit several doctors and make numerous trips to the hospital before their anxiety disorder is discovered.
General physical symptoms of anxiety include:
· Thumping heart and sweating
· Stomach upset or faintness
· Frequent urination or diarrhea
· Shortness of breath and muscle tension
· Twitches and tremors
· Headaches, fatigue and insomnia
Several people with anxiety disorders also suffer from depression at some point. Depression and anxiety are believed to stem from the same biological susceptibility which might explain why they so frequently go hand in hand. Since depression makes anxiety worse and vice versa, it’s vital to seek treatment for both conditions.
About the Author
Paul Fryatt, M.D. has been in this profession from last 24 years. He made great achievements in his profession. He made an initiative to open a Family Allergy Clinic in 1985 to help his patients who were not reacting to traditional allergy treatment programs. Moreover he has explored the treatment to overcome allergy symptoms to reclaim quality of life through his convenient, no-shots therapy.
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