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Anxiety
What is Anxiety?
Anxiety is felt by almost everyone at some point of their
life and it usually involves a multifaceted mixture of emotions
which consists of fear, apprehension as well as worry and
very often there are additional physical sensations such as
palpitations, nausea, chest pain as well as shortness of breath.
Many doctors say that anxiety is in many cases considered
to be cognitive, somatic, and emotional and has several behavioral
mechanisms. To begin with, the cognitive mechanism implies
that the patient expects or has a diffusion of uncertain danger.
Somatic Anxiety
For the case of somatic anxiety, the body makes ready the
organism to cope with a threat which is known as emergency
reaction, where blood pressure and heart rates will increase
and there is also sweating and increased blood flow to the
key muscle groups. Physically, somatic signs may appear in
the form of paleness of skin, sweating, trembling as well
as dilation of the pupils.
Emotional or Behavioral
People who are in emotional anxiety, the patient will feel
a sense of foreboding or panic and is physically afflicted
with nausea as well as cold chills. As for the behavioral
anxiety, which may either be voluntary or involuntary, the
patient will try to escape or avoid the source and such behaviors
are frequent as also maladaptive and are the most extreme
types of disorders.
However, this does not mean that anxiety is always maladaptive
or pathological. It is a usual emotion that coexists with
fear, anger, sadness and happiness and plays a very important
role in the survival of the patient.
Medically, anxiety is considered to be caused by neural circuitry
which invovles amygdale as well as hippocampus. When the patient
is confronted with stimuli which are neither pleasant nor
harmless and these include foul smells and odors or tastes
there are bound to be an increased flowing of the blood in
the amygdale.
It may result in moderate levels of anxiety and this indicates
that it is a mechanism that protects in order to prevent the
organism from taking part in potentially detrimental behaviors
such as eating food that is rotten.
A patient’s life may be seriously affected when he
or she has continually returning cases of anxiety and this
can be clinically diagnosed. Some of the most common disorders
are generalized anxiety disorders, panic disorders, social
anxiety disorders, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorders
as well as posttraumatic stress disorders.
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