Signs of someone with Anxiety |
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Posted Date: 6/30/2009 |
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Category: Mental Health Disorders » Anxiety - Panic Disorders |
Anxiety like pain is an unpleasant necessity. A person unable to feel anxious would be severely incapacitated. Anxiety leads to an adaptive response to threat that is fight or flight. Now there are three components through which we can identify an individual suffering from anxiety. First there are the physical response mediated by the autonomic nervous system and accompanied by increased adrenalin, noradrenalin and corticosteroids. These manifest as palpitations, piloerection, sweating and papillary dilatation. Along with these are the subjective manifestations including par aesthesia, giddiness, butterflies in the stomach, breathing difficulties, a sense of painful pressure in the chest and muscular tension especially round head and neck. These symptoms may be attributed by the person and physician to organic illness. He may also have difficulty in swallowing, dizziness, abdominal discomfort, diarrhea and even frequency.
Then comes the psychological component. There is a continuum of arousal responses running from the generalized to the severe and incapacitating anxiety. The individual shows irritability, inability to memorize, inability to concentrate, fearful and nervous attitude. Chronic anxiety states may produce all these subjective sensations. Anxious person fail to habituate to stimuli and so remain chronically over anxious. This can result in extreme sensitivity to sudden noises or movements. In extreme anxiety, a state of detachment may supervene in which anxiety suddenly disappears to be replaced by a feeling of being outside of oneself called depersonalization and cut off from one’s surroundings which appear unreal and distant called derealisation. These experiences may be interpratated by the person as signs of gone mad.
Then lastly comes the interpersonal component. A frightened individual clings to these he loves and whom he depends. This is a part of attachment behavior and like anxiety is adaptive. Species survival depends on secure bonding. The dependency and excessive demands on others that so often accompany anxiety states can be understood as a part of the attachment response to the threat. Anxiety may also be primary or secondary to any psychiatric or physical illness. It is a non-specific symptom which occurs in a wide range of psychiatric syndromes including depression, alcoholism and schizophrenia. It can also be a manifestation of any organic illness particularly thyrotoxicosis, paroxysmal tachycardia, carcinoid syndrome, hypoglycemia and seizures. However, overall individuals who experience anxiety symptoms either chronically or or intermittently without a clear stimulus or an obvious focus of fear suffer so called free-floating anxiety. This may also arise from faulty learning attachment behavior shows how early childhood relationships may predispose to anxiety in later life. If the early relationship with the parent is disrupted by separation or inconsistent handling for example, the child may develop a bond of anxious attachment. Rather than being able to explore and become autonomous, the child clings to the mother at first physically and later emotionally showing signs of distress. Thus childhood experience than acts as a template for anxiety in later life, faced with threat the anxious individual clings attachment figures-spouse, parent, child or doctor. Anxious persons often experience an inner conflict between their and for dependency and whom they depend a person who feels angry for example with an unfaithful spouse but is unable to express this because of fear of separation and loss may also develop anxiety symptoms. He fears to bite the hand that feeds. Anger in particular coexists with anxiety. The angry person is often a frightened one and vice-versa. Thus keeping all the above given points in our mind and view, we can easily separate out individuals in our family, colleagues, friends and immediate surroundings who are suffering from general anxiety disorder. For this, we should be open-minded, be very observant about other’s behavior and have an independent knowledge about their past as well, but only in keeping with the ethical and moral values!
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