Symptoms of Anxiety Are Also Very Natural!

Take a look at the symptoms typically identified with anxiety or panic attacks and you will quickly see that most are very normal emotional responses. What makes the symptomatic normal is the situation that the response is tied to.

Take for instance the to very common anxiety symptoms of rapid heartbeat and sweating. If you're running and playing in a sporting event you would expect a faster heartbeat and to sweat. If however you are simply watering flowers in the garden, unless it's extremely hot, you wouldn't expect to be noticeably sweating and pounding heart or palpitations would seem out of place.

Understand them that the key difference between having a symptom and a natural response to life is the situation.

There is also be intensity of the symptom that may indicate an anxiety disorder. Continuing with the sweat analogy, if it's a hot day in your watering the garden it's normal perspire. Perspiring profusely when watering the garden however is probably not normal, and can be an indication of an anxiety disorder

Other evidence of anxiety phobia and potential panic attacks is the number of symptoms experienced at the same time. As the number of symptoms increase, the feeling of being overwhelmed and out of control increases substantially.

If you have several of the more common symptoms at what would be considered an inappropriate time, you may be at risk for anxiety attacks. Some of the more common indications of anxiety are:

Pounding Heart or Palpitations --- Rapid Heartbeat

Profuse Sweating

An Intense Feeling of Shaking Are Quaking inside

Shortness of Breath

Lump in the Throat or Choking Sensation

Chest Pain or Discomfort

Nausea

Dizziness

Anxiety Lightheadedness

A Feeling of Possibly Thinking

A Fear of Losing Control

As you can see many of the symptoms of anxiety could be considered natural responses in the right situation. Remember that the intensity and the situation play a major role in determining if the indications are caused by anxiety, or possibly a physical illness

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There is a wide range of anxiety symptoms that may be no more than a mild feeling of uneasiness and as intense as extreme fear. In some cases, a little amount of anxiety is good and normal and it may even help to improve a person’s performance. There are features like having heart palpitations or a racing heart as well as a lot of sweating that point in the direction of being an anxiety symptom. Symptoms such as irritability and lack of concentration as well as having strange thoughts and having extreme mood changes are psychological symptoms.

For Treatment One Needs to Attack the Root Cause

One may wonder as to what the causes of anxiety symptoms are and who the people at greatest risk are. The answer lies in the fact that anxiety symptoms are a result of anxiety disorders which may occur due to a change in the way amygdale, which is a small organ in the subconscious brain, reacts. This is also known as anxiety switch. For treatment to be effective, there is a need for concentrating directly on these symptoms and the treatment should be aimed at the root causes of any anxiety disorders, which in other words, is an inappropriate reaction of the amygdale.

It may be noted that everybody may have experienced anxiety symptoms at some point of time in their lives and most are able to effectively deal with such situations. When there is a lot of unusual rise in the adrenaline levels in the blood it sets off a chain reaction of normal but wrong reactions which results in powerful anxiety symptoms that greatly affect the person afflicted.

There are also instances of some people experiencing symptoms when there is no obvious cause and these are known as free-floating symptoms that can be discontinuous in nature or may continue over a longer period of time. Some even have situational anxiety wherein the anxiety symptoms can be correlated with particular situations.

One may also wonder whether anxiety symptoms are harmful and the answer is certainly not. They do not cause harm to the person even though they elicit a sense of horror and scare the person but in effect anxiety symptoms are not harmful, being exaggerations of normal body sensations and reactions. It bears repeating that to treat anxiety symptoms, one has to address the root cause, which lies in the amygdale, where anxiety is created and stored as well as sustained