Anxiety is the body's response to stress or danger. Now and again it is helpful because it can help prepare the body for action, improving performance in many situations. Anxiety becomes a problem when it persistently interferes with a person's daily life and can sometimes be experienced intensely. Often commonly occurring together, depression and anxiety can be fellow bed mates.
Symptoms of anxiety are extremely common - with everyone experiencing them in some form or other. Being not as rare as you might think specific anxiety disorders or illnesses are also present in around 5 per cent of the population at any time, but what are the symptoms of anxiety? Anxiety can be felt in many different ways. Psychological symptoms * Tension within. * Agitation. * The loss of control. * Dreading that a catastrophe is going to happen, such as a blackout, seizures, heart attack or even death. * Being irritable. * Feeling detached, as if being held captive separate from the world. Physical symptoms * Fast heart beat (palpitations). * Breathing fast, a shortness of breath or finding it hard to 'get breath'. * A tight chest. * Very dry mouth, butterflies in the stomach, feeling sick. * Wanting to immediately pass urine. * Tremors. * Sweats.
Over breathing(or Hyperventilation) is a very common and frightening symptom of anxiety, affecting some people with a particular combination of symptoms. Often mistaken for a serious medical illness by both patients and doctors,and including the symptoms of epilepsy and heart attacks. A person normally begins to breathe rapidly and shallowly during this type of episode, often triggered by something obvious, but very often there is no obvious cause for the change in breathing. Physical symptoms such as tingling in the fingers and around the mouth and light-headedness (and ultimately fainting) follow this rapid and shallow breathing and this causes changes to the chemistry of the body.
Certain fears can be associated with the feeling of anxiety, but what is Fear? * You can be afraid for instance about a possible or probable situation or event; "I am afraid of his/her aggressive nature". * You can be afraid or scared of something; "I am afraid of the dark!" * You can be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement; "Im worried that I won't make it to your birthday ". * Much of the feeling of anxiety can be associated with certain fears, but what is Fear? * It can be an emotion experienced during a time of danger resulting in a fight or flight syndrome. * You can be uneasy or afraid about something; "I fear the results of my medical results" * It can be a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; "the fear of God for instance". We can sum up fear quite simply by the using following acronym: False Evidence Appearing Real. The reason why we become anxious is due to the fact that we have perceived a threat as being real which has sent our senses into orbit and caused us to be anxious or in extreme cases brought on a panic attack. We could say that this is merely fear of the unknown, i.e. we have experienced something that we are not accustomed too (flying for instance) and interpreted this as a danger, causing this over reaction. Another catalyst can be fear of rejection (being spurned by a loved one for instance).
The sufferer of anxiety can sometimes the feeling of not fully breathing out, due to a disjointed pattern of breathing, and thus experience the feeling of a tight chest. Although these symptoms are not normally medically dangerous, they are nonetheless very frightening, which in turn causes an increase in anxiety which then becomes vicious circle. There is fortunately a simple treatment for this symptom, which is to breathe in and out of a paper (not polythene) bag for a short time, which reverses the chemical changes caused by this over breathing. Learning how to relax should however be the ultimate goal in the treatment of the underlying cause of the anxiety. - 29881
Symptoms of anxiety are extremely common - with everyone experiencing them in some form or other. Being not as rare as you might think specific anxiety disorders or illnesses are also present in around 5 per cent of the population at any time, but what are the symptoms of anxiety? Anxiety can be felt in many different ways. Psychological symptoms * Tension within. * Agitation. * The loss of control. * Dreading that a catastrophe is going to happen, such as a blackout, seizures, heart attack or even death. * Being irritable. * Feeling detached, as if being held captive separate from the world. Physical symptoms * Fast heart beat (palpitations). * Breathing fast, a shortness of breath or finding it hard to 'get breath'. * A tight chest. * Very dry mouth, butterflies in the stomach, feeling sick. * Wanting to immediately pass urine. * Tremors. * Sweats.
Over breathing(or Hyperventilation) is a very common and frightening symptom of anxiety, affecting some people with a particular combination of symptoms. Often mistaken for a serious medical illness by both patients and doctors,and including the symptoms of epilepsy and heart attacks. A person normally begins to breathe rapidly and shallowly during this type of episode, often triggered by something obvious, but very often there is no obvious cause for the change in breathing. Physical symptoms such as tingling in the fingers and around the mouth and light-headedness (and ultimately fainting) follow this rapid and shallow breathing and this causes changes to the chemistry of the body.
Certain fears can be associated with the feeling of anxiety, but what is Fear? * You can be afraid for instance about a possible or probable situation or event; "I am afraid of his/her aggressive nature". * You can be afraid or scared of something; "I am afraid of the dark!" * You can be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement; "Im worried that I won't make it to your birthday ". * Much of the feeling of anxiety can be associated with certain fears, but what is Fear? * It can be an emotion experienced during a time of danger resulting in a fight or flight syndrome. * You can be uneasy or afraid about something; "I fear the results of my medical results" * It can be a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; "the fear of God for instance". We can sum up fear quite simply by the using following acronym: False Evidence Appearing Real. The reason why we become anxious is due to the fact that we have perceived a threat as being real which has sent our senses into orbit and caused us to be anxious or in extreme cases brought on a panic attack. We could say that this is merely fear of the unknown, i.e. we have experienced something that we are not accustomed too (flying for instance) and interpreted this as a danger, causing this over reaction. Another catalyst can be fear of rejection (being spurned by a loved one for instance).
The sufferer of anxiety can sometimes the feeling of not fully breathing out, due to a disjointed pattern of breathing, and thus experience the feeling of a tight chest. Although these symptoms are not normally medically dangerous, they are nonetheless very frightening, which in turn causes an increase in anxiety which then becomes vicious circle. There is fortunately a simple treatment for this symptom, which is to breathe in and out of a paper (not polythene) bag for a short time, which reverses the chemical changes caused by this over breathing. Learning how to relax should however be the ultimate goal in the treatment of the underlying cause of the anxiety. - 29881
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