Anxiety is the body's acute response to a perceived stress or danger. It can now and again be helpful in preparing the body for action, and in many situations can actually improve performance. It becomes a problem when within a person's daily life it persistently interferes, and can then be totally debilitating. These two symptoms can be fellow bed mates and can often occur together.
Anxiety symptoms are extremely common - everybody experiences them from time to time. Specific anxiety disorders or illnesses are also not as rare as you might think, being present in around 5 per cent of the population at any time, but what are the symptoms of anxiety? Anxiety can be experienced in a number of different ways. Psychological symptoms * Inner tension. * Agitation. * Fear of losing control. * Dread that something catastrophic is going to happen, such as a blackout, seizure, heart attack or death. * Irritability. * Feelings of detachment, as if being trapped in a bubble separate from the world. Physical symptoms * Racing heart beat (palpitations). * Breathing fast, feeling short of breath or finding it hard to 'get breath'. * Chest tightness. * Dry mouth, butterflies in the stomach, feeling sick. * An urge to pass urine. * Tremor. * Sweating.
There is a very common and frightening symptom of anxiety which affects many people with anxiety, called "over breathing"(or Hyperventilation Syndrome). Sometimes both patients and doctors think that this is a serious medical illness, which is understandable as it can include the symptoms of such things as epilepsy or even a heart attack. People normally begin to experience very shallow and rapid breathing during hyperventilation and it can be caused sometimes for no obvious reason. People can experience physical symptoms such as tingling in the fingers and around the mouth with light-headedness (and ultimately fainting) followed by rapid and shallow breathing due to changes to the chemistry of the body.
We can associate the feeling of anxiety with certain fears, but what is Fear? * We can be afraid or worried about a possible or potential situation or event; "I am afraid of his/her nasty temper". * We can be afraid or scared of something; "I am afraid of dark places!" * We can be sorry about something we have or havent done; "Im sorry that I forgot about your birthday ". Much of the feeling of anxiety can be associated with certain fears, but what is Fear? * Emotions experienced during a time of danger can result in something known as the fight or flight syndrome. * We can be uneasy or afraid about something; "I fear the operation I need to have" * It can be a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; "the fear of God for instance". We can explain fear quite simply by the using following acronym: False Evidence Appearing Real. Sometimes the reason for our anxiety can be due to the fact that we have perceived a threat as being real, and this has sent our senses into an explosive take off mode, causing us to become anxious or in extreme cases bringing on a panic attack. Some say that this is merely fear of the unknown, i.e. we have experienced something that we have never done before (flying for instance) and we interpret this as a danger, causing us to over react. Another reason for our fear could be due to rejection (being turned away 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. - 29964
Anxiety symptoms are extremely common - everybody experiences them from time to time. Specific anxiety disorders or illnesses are also not as rare as you might think, being present in around 5 per cent of the population at any time, but what are the symptoms of anxiety? Anxiety can be experienced in a number of different ways. Psychological symptoms * Inner tension. * Agitation. * Fear of losing control. * Dread that something catastrophic is going to happen, such as a blackout, seizure, heart attack or death. * Irritability. * Feelings of detachment, as if being trapped in a bubble separate from the world. Physical symptoms * Racing heart beat (palpitations). * Breathing fast, feeling short of breath or finding it hard to 'get breath'. * Chest tightness. * Dry mouth, butterflies in the stomach, feeling sick. * An urge to pass urine. * Tremor. * Sweating.
There is a very common and frightening symptom of anxiety which affects many people with anxiety, called "over breathing"(or Hyperventilation Syndrome). Sometimes both patients and doctors think that this is a serious medical illness, which is understandable as it can include the symptoms of such things as epilepsy or even a heart attack. People normally begin to experience very shallow and rapid breathing during hyperventilation and it can be caused sometimes for no obvious reason. People can experience physical symptoms such as tingling in the fingers and around the mouth with light-headedness (and ultimately fainting) followed by rapid and shallow breathing due to changes to the chemistry of the body.
We can associate the feeling of anxiety with certain fears, but what is Fear? * We can be afraid or worried about a possible or potential situation or event; "I am afraid of his/her nasty temper". * We can be afraid or scared of something; "I am afraid of dark places!" * We can be sorry about something we have or havent done; "Im sorry that I forgot about your birthday ". Much of the feeling of anxiety can be associated with certain fears, but what is Fear? * Emotions experienced during a time of danger can result in something known as the fight or flight syndrome. * We can be uneasy or afraid about something; "I fear the operation I need to have" * It can be a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; "the fear of God for instance". We can explain fear quite simply by the using following acronym: False Evidence Appearing Real. Sometimes the reason for our anxiety can be due to the fact that we have perceived a threat as being real, and this has sent our senses into an explosive take off mode, causing us to become anxious or in extreme cases bringing on a panic attack. Some say that this is merely fear of the unknown, i.e. we have experienced something that we have never done before (flying for instance) and we interpret this as a danger, causing us to over react. Another reason for our fear could be due to rejection (being turned away 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. - 29964
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