The presence or even just the anticipation of what you fear triggers the anxiety. Adults often recognize that this fear is unreasonable although uncontrollable.
Social Anxiety Disorder
Social anxiety disorder is a debilitating fear of social situations due to the potential of embarrassment or humiliation. If this fear carries on for six months, it may be best to consult an expert.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD
This is the most well-known of stimuli-triggered disorders. In this condition, previous trauma like loss or violence in the past, brings about the anxiety disorder. Acute stress disorder and adjustment disorder are both variants of PTSD
Panic Disorder
This involves going through spontaneous and out-of-the-blue panic symptoms along with the debilitating worry of having another one in the future.
Generalized anxiety disorder or GAD
This involves worrying over potentially negative outcomes of future events and activities. This excessive worry and distress will interfere with daily interactions and day-to-day life.
Other specific anxiety disorders are separation anxiety, agoraphobia, selective mutism, or substance-induced disorders.
Possible Physical Symptoms
Besides knowing how to delineate anxiety and anxiety disorder there are physical symptoms also.
Anxiety disorders come with chronic life stress because these stressors, regardless of how irrational, still make our body go through the same process as rational stress.
Stressors stimulate the stress hormone system and the cardiovascular system because of the fear and anxiety, this then turns anxiety disorders into a cause of constant increased activity.
Anxiety symptoms to watch out for include:
- rapid breathing
- increased heart rate
- weakness
- lethargy
- restlessness
- tension
- fatigue
- insomnia
- gastrointestinal issues
- sweating
- trembling
Under normal conditions, chronic stress levels are low, and whenever a threat is present, the body releases hormones as a response.
The autonomic nervous system is responsible for the release of cortisol that increases the sugar level in the bloodstream to allow the body to act based on just the fight or flight response.
However, if this occurs regularly and these biological responses are triggered excessively, possible complications with the immune and cardiovascular systems could arise and someone would be more at risk for these diseases.
Key Takeaways
In the end, our mental health is and should fall under the same care we give our physical health. If you have any concerns or doubts when it comes to possibly having anxiety, do not hesitate to consult an expert for the right insight and diagnosis.
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