What are Anxiety Symptoms?

A certain amount of anxiety is normal, but if your anxiety symptoms start to rule your life, you may need to begin a search for treatment of them.

Most people worry and feel tense or afraid when facing a situation that is stressful. It is considered to be the body’s natural response when it feels threatened.

While anxiety is not fun, it’s not always bad to experience it. Anxiety helps you to stay focused and alert, and act as motivation.

However, if you are always experiencing anxiety and it becomes too much for you to handle, it can interfere with relationships and other areas of your life. This is when you should consider the fact that you may have an anxiety disorder.

Anxiety symptoms can be different for everyone. While some people may experience severe anxiety attacks with no warning, others might just get panicky over the thought of something. Still others may live in a constant state of tension where they worry about absolutely everything.

There is, however, one symptom that everyone has: constant or intense fear or worry about things that most people wouldn’t think twice about.

There are emotional symptoms of anxiety in addition to the primary symptoms regarding irrational, excessive worry and fear. These include:

• Feeling irritable
• Having trouble concentrating
• Experiencing feelings of apprehension or dread
• Feeling restless
• Being jumpy and tense
• Fearing the worst
• Looking for signs of a threat
• Feeling as if your mind has gone blank

In addition to the emotional anxiety symptoms, there are also physical symptoms that accompany an anxiety attack. Because these are so numerous, many people think these symptoms are due to a medical illness. Some physical symptoms of anxiety are:

• Profuse sweating
• Severe headaches
• Heart pounding
• Upset stomach and or dizziness
• Insomnia
• Urinating frequently and or diarrhea
• Uncontrollable tremors or twitches
• Tense muscles
• Fatigue
• Shortness of breath

Most anxiety attacks peak within 10 minutes, and rarely last more than 30 minutes. This may not seem like a long time, but it does to the person experiencing the symptoms.

There terror present during the attacks can be so intense that there is a persistent feeling of being about to die. The physical symptoms can be so horrible that a lot of people truly believe they are having a heart attack.

If you are having any of these anxiety symptoms in a group, or alone, and there does not seem to be a valid reason for them, it will be helpful to seek the advice of a health care professional.

There are ways to alleviate the symptoms and possibly take away the attacks completely.

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