Anxiety Symptoms- What are the Sensations?
Man is equipped with complex systems of emotional patterns. These emotions are some of his tools to cope up with his daily existence. He may feel anxious from time to time and that is expected to pass. Becoming anxious is only one of his normal response to daily stresses that may come his way. Yet once anxiousness is eating most of his time and his being and has developed into a chronic condition then all normal states may be considered obsolete. The person may have now developed a serious form of anxiety or what we medically pertain to as anxiety disorder.
The causes why people develop anxiety disorders are still reserved for further discoveries. For now, there are still no certain results from the number of studies that have been conducted during the past years. However, experts have now several ideas that may lead them to uprooting the real factors that contribute and cause the development of anxiety disorders.
During the earlier studies, patients are recorded to have been rushing into hospital emergency rooms while the doctors cannot find definitive symptoms that may lead to possible disorders. However, during the last couple of years experts have recorded the symptoms that will lead them to the diagnosis of the disease.
Anxiety symptoms differ from one patient to another. This is due to the reason that the nature of the individual himself, his biological, physical, psychological make-up must be considered before any assumption is made plus the intensity and frequency of the anxiety symptoms.
Listed below the following sections of the article are the most common and the generalized symptoms of anxiety attacks and anxiety disorder. For better comprehension, we have categorized the anxiety symptoms into different brackets:
Body
*Sensations that may resemble burning
*feeling of electric shock
*unrelax feeling
*chronic fatigue
*feeling of going to faint
*chill
*excess energy or the reverse
*muscle twitching
*sweating
*body pain
*muscle numbness, stiffness and tension
*shaking and trembling
*frequent urination
*warm spells
*weakening of the limbs
Chest
*Discomfort in the chest area
*Forceful breathing and shortness of breath
*Rapid heart beat
*Irregular heart beat
Emotions
*Irregular mood swings
*Misplaced emotions
*Sensations of crying
*Emotional blunting
Fears
*Elevated fear against other people's judgment over the
person's personality
*Heightened self-consciousness
*Fear of being trapped or enclose in a room without exits
*Fear of merging in the public
*Overwhelming sensations
*Fear of imminent doom
*Fear of losing control
*Fear of losing one's mind
*Fear of making a fool of one's self
*Fear of dying
Head
*Lightheadedness
*Migraine and frequent headaches
*Giddiness
*Shooting pains around the face and the area around the head
*Sore jaws
*Neck, head and shoulder pains
Mind
*Depersonalization
*Feelings that border with unreality
*Fear of losing control of the mind, body and emotions
*Difficulty of concentration
*Anxiety
*Obsessions that pertain to getting well or feeling better
*Clinical depression and the likes
*Mind chatter or repetitive thinking
*Overwhelming feeling
Mood
*Overwhelming feeling of being unable to control one's feeling
or emotions
*Lack of patience
*Depression
*"Down days"
*dreamlike sensations of things
*grouchy feelings
*feeling of crying without apparent reasons
*underlying fear, anxiety and apprehension
*feelings of extreme pressure
Sleep
*Difficulty of staying or falling into sleep
*Unhealthy dreams
*Insomnia
*Waking up due to panic attacks
*Jolting awake
Sight
*Distorted feeling
*Watery and itchy eyes
*Sensitivity to light
*Visual spots
*Impairment in depth perception
The symptoms mentioned here may manifest themselves simultaneously. However, there are cases wherein patients may only display one or two anxiety symptoms.
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