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Should you fear anxiety, well
if it is any help or consolation in easing your
mind anxiety is a normal human feeling that
many people experience? People alike suffer
from anxiety when faced with situations that
become an ordeal to cope with thus leaving that
particular person under threat from their own
thoughts which weakens their ability to cope
hence stressing them
out
Although
stated as a normal human feeling people
describe it as stressful. 'Stress' can be
used to mean two different things – i.e.,
things that make us anxious and how we
react to them. Most anxieties after
recent study showed the cause to be
mainly through financial hardship (debt)
which this type of anxiety is more
familiar as worry, however if faced with
a threatening dilemma like falling off a
cliff top then this is panic
(fear)
Normally, both
fear and anxiety can be helpful, helping us to
avoid dangerous situations, making us alert and
giving us the motivation to deal with problems.
However, if the feelings become too strong or
go on for too long, they can stop us from doing
the things we want to and can make our lives a
misery, meaning, disabling a patient suffering
from anxiety in more ways than one.
Symptoms
of anxiety in the mind described are,
feeling worried all the time, feeling
lethargic and irritable, interrupted
sleep pattern, unable to concentrate,
whereas in contrast to the mind we have
anxiety symptoms which show through the
body, e.g. Irregular heartbeat
(palpitations) profuse sweating,
diarrhoea, dizziness, heavy breathing,
faintness, pain and muscle tension. These
symptoms are easily mistaken by anxious
people for evidence of serious physical
illness therefore causing themselves
unnecessary worry where they can end up
making themselves seriously ill and the
symptoms that caused the worry can
worsen.
Sudden unexpected
surges of anxiety are called bouts of panic,
and usually lead to the person having to
quickly get out of whatever situation they find
them self in. Anxiety and panic are often
accompanied by feelings of depression where
some people feel down and go off their food as
well as seeing no future for them
self.
A person with a
phobia has intense symptoms of anxiety. But
they only arise in a particular situation that
may frighten them. If you have a phobia of
snakes, you will feel OK as long as you are not
abandoned in the out back of Australia or in
the Amazon rain forest.
Phobias
become worse because of the sufferer them
self who go through life avoiding
situations that could lead them having to
face their phobia where anxious moments
will occur. A person's life becomes
increasingly dominated by the precautions
they have to take to avoid the situation
they fear and dread. Treatments and
therapy is available to help people with
conditions as such, however out of the
one in ten people who are supposedly at
some time in their life suffer from
anxiety or have a phobia ignore the
problem and choose to battle on without
medical help.
In some cases of
anxiety the cause has been known to develop
through taking illegal substances, (drugs) like
amphetamines, LSD or Ecstasy. Never take drugs
that are not prescribed by a
doctor.
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