ANXIETY DISORDER

    Anxiety Disorder

 Anxiety is a reaction to stress that has psychological and physical symptoms.  These feelings emerge from the amygdala, the brain region that regulates strong emotional responses.  Uncontrolled stress and anxiety can become unhealthy, both physically and psychologically.  If you experience anxiety, it is important to seek help immediately.

       Anxiety is the body's natural response to stress.  This can appear as a feeling of worry or even afraid of what will happen later.  For example, about the first day at school, a job interview, or when giving a speech that can cause some people to feel nervous.  But not everyone feels anxious when faced with the situation.  Anxiety is a normal feeling if it can still be controlled and disappear after the trigger factor is resolved.  If feelings of anxiety persist and cause disruption in daily activities, the condition can be said to be an anxiety disorder (anxiety disorder).

Symptoms Caused by Anxiety

           Everyone has anxious feelings at some point in their lives.  Anxiety is a feeling of fear, worry, or an unpleasant feeling towards something.  This can be a reaction to stress or to people who are unable to recognize stressors in their lives.  Some of the causes of stress and anxiety are moving places, starting a new school or job, suffering an injury or illness, having a friend or family member who is sick, death of a family member or friend, getting married, and having a baby.  Stress or anxiety because certain conditions do not necessarily indicate that you suffer from anxiety disorders.  Anxiety disorders arise if after the causative factors that trigger anxiety are gone but you still continue to feel anxious, or anxiety that is felt to interfere with your daily activities that cause difficulties in working, school, or living your day.

        Some people feel anxious from time to time.  However, anxiety or anxiety can become abnormal if it interferes with daily activities.  Some of the symptoms arising from this disturbing anxiety include rapid heartbeat, palpitations, nausea, trembling, difficulty concentrating, sweating, dry mouth, chest pain, headaches, difficulty or unable to sleep, and breathing fast  .  Anxiety can become abnormal, if this condition arises for no apparent reason when there is no stressful situation.

Different Types of Anxiety You Need To Know

 Anxiety or anxiety consists of several types, the following explanation:

 •Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

         Excessive worries about things that will not necessarily happen, or worry too much about simple things like health, safety, money, and other aspects of daily life that last for 6 months or more.  Often accompanied by muscle aches, fatigue, headaches, nausea, shortness of breath, and insomnia.  People with this disorder find it difficult to relax, always feel tense or uncomfortable, and difficult or even unable to concentrate.  These disorders are often not clearly identified the cause but this anxiety is permanent and disturbing.

•Phobias.

          Phobias are a part of anxiety that causes irrational fear of certain things or situations, such as spiders, being in a crowd, being at height, or being in a closed room.  Fear of situations or objects that generally do not cause fear for most people such as escalators, being in water, riding a plane, or to certain colors or numbers are signs of phobia.  People with phobias will feel excessive fear or anxiety if exposed to these conditions or objects so that it is not uncommon to cause disruption of daily activities just to avoid the originator of these phobias.

•Social anxiety disorder.

           This disorder is also called social phobia.  People with this disorder have an amazingly increased self-awareness in social gatherings, because they feel supervised and valued by others, and are afraid of feeling embarrassed especially when in the crowd.  This can cause problems if the sufferer works in a field that requires him to speak in public or face a large audience.

 •Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

           This disorder can appear in someone who has experienced an event or is in a dangerous, tragic, or traumatic situation that can be life threatening.  PTSD sufferers often feel scared or feel like looking back at a situation that triggers an interruption.  This disorder can be suffered by people who have lived in conflict or war areas, been affected by natural disasters, or victims of violence.  Circumstances that trigger these complaints often arise in memory and sometimes in the form of dreams.  People with this disorder also often experience depression, insomnia, to the misuse of drugs or alcoholic beverages to overcome the disorder.

• Panic Disorder.

           There is a feeling of fear or panic that is repetitive and unreasonable.  Accompanied by rapid heartbeat, sweating, dizziness, and feeling weak.  This disorder can appear at any time and suddenly.  People with panic disorder cannot predict when the disorder will appear or what triggers it.  This complaint causes many social and even physical disabilities because the sufferer will feel afraid if this panic attack arises.

 Obsessive or compulsive disorder (OCD).

         This disorder has the characteristics of obsessive thoughts, such as unreasonable fears, and is accompanied by compulsive actions.  For example washing hands repeatedly to relieve anxiety due to feeling dirty produced by the mind.  These thoughts are difficult to control and are sedentary and repetitive, causing disruption of activities or behaviors that are considered strange by others.  Some extreme cases suffered by OCD sufferers are locking the door and then checking it again many times to ensure that the door has been locked.  This obsessive-compulsive behavior can cause the sufferer to be late for work or sometimes do not move at all because of excessive anxiety if the urge to do the action is not followed.