Natures of Anxiety

Anxiety is a commonplace experience that every human beings will suffers from time to time. It can be described as an emotion that causes mild to intense feelings of fears, nervousness, heart palpitation, and others.

Anxiety can be triggered by an unrealistic situations, such as during a phobia or panic attacks. Unlike fear, which is a natural emotional response to dangers that are real, anxiety can occurs when that is no immediate or natural real-life threat happenings.

Unlike fears, anxieties manifest unconsciously by the brain through cognition processes. Therefore the feelings of anxiousness caused by an anxiety episode are sometime unavoidable.

Anxiety arises when fear is misplaced or disconnected by reality. Although fear plays an important role in our daily life as a response to danger, excessively avoiding fear could results in unwanted anxiety later on.

In some cases, anxiety is produced by physical responses to stress or by certain disease processes or medications. This could be the result of hormone imbalance.

The familiar “fight or flight” syndrome, which occurs naturally when immediate danger or stress happens, is characterized by high-level alertness, increased heart beats, eyes dilation, and tense muscles. This is biologically caused by high-level of stress hormones such as cortisol, norepinephrine, and adrenaline.

Hypochondria's sufferers often experience intense anxiety in response to some physical pains within the body, such as stomach aches, headache or even minor skin rashes.

The diagnosis of anxiety is difficult as it has many causes. Some are causes by genetic and biological development of a person and others external factors such as stresses, examples PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders).

Some fears escalates into anxiety when long-term solutions are not found. Therefore it is imperative that a person has to confront his or her fears in order to eliminates or at least reduces the chances of these fears developing into anxiety disorder such as panic attacks and phobia.