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Anxiety
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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