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Symptoms of Anxiety
Some of the symptoms of anxiety are worry and fear. Have you experienced feeling anxious before taking an exam and later find out that you got a higher result more than what you’ve expected? Or, feeling anxious for a job consultation and ended up getting hired, or feeling terrified walking down an alley where dreadful things often happened? Standard anxiety helps us deal with any stressful situation, it also keeps us observant.
Mental health professional are not anxious with normal anxiety. But, if your anxiety unexpectedly occurred without apparent reason and lasts for weeks to months and happens in most days that is another issue. If anxiety persists in most days and lasts longer than six months, it has become an immobilizing disorder.
An anxiety disorder is a recurring and excessive anxiety. Where you worry about events or activities without rational reasons. It can impede with everyday activities, such as going to work, and socializing. A person experiencing anxiety condition finds it challenging to control the feelings of worry and fear. The thing concerning people with anxiety disorder is that they, in reality know that what they think of feel is not real and that they are just made-up.
The common anxiety disorders are Panic Disorder, Social Phobia, Agoraphobia, Specific Phobia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Separation Anxiety, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.
A person with anxiety condition may suffer different anxiety disorder symptoms. And since no two people are the same, the anxiety disorder symptoms may vary from one person to the other.
The physical symptoms of anxiety disorder are cause by the brain sending messages to parts of the body to prepare it for the flight-or-fight response. The lungs, heart, and other parts of the body work faster and the brain releases stress hormones, including adrenaline.
These are just some of the Anxiety disorder symptoms that people may experience physically:
- Abdominal discomfort
Diarrhoea
Dry mouth
Rapid heartbeat or palpitations
Tightness or pain in chest
Shortness of breath
Dizziness
Frequent urination
Difficulty swallowing
Psychologically you may experience:
- Insomnia
Irritability
Inability to concentrate
Fear of going crazy or dying
Feeling unreal and not in control of your behaviour
There are more than a few types of anxiety disorders and occasionally they are associated with physical addictions such as alcohol and drug abuse. Anxiety is the main symptoms of other mental illness called anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorder symptoms may differ from the symptoms of other anxiety disorders, but all the symptoms cluster around excessive, irrational fear and dread.
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Anxiety Disorder
How anxiety disorder effects your mind and body. A short but very informative video.
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A set of 5 BBC Documentary’s On Phobias
Jackie is petrified of feathers, Ryan cant fly, and Trevor’s scared of heights. Irrational phobias are damaging their lives. Will the latest treatments help like dropping them in at the deep end?
When fear goes wrong it can turn into a phobia an irrational fear so strong it sometimes ruins lives.
WARNING.. There is some bad language used in the video’s, but it is in keeping with what is going on.