Overcoming Anxiety

The Main Causes of Anxiety

September 23rd, 2007

There are many causes and reasons for people to get anxious, some of the reasons might be general whereas some reasons may be technical and could be because of medical reasons. Anxiety becomes a disorder when in excess

People get anxious when there happens to be a high valued material loss, loss of life or a major accident of some one very close, problems in personal relationships, as these are not daily life occurrences they momentarily make a person anxious and may be make some people anxious for some more time depending on the individual.

Anxiety disorders like many other diseases which are hereditary can be a family trait. These disorders might occur very frequently to people who are suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure. In addition to many of the reasons specified above anxiety disorders may also result from an unhealthy lifestyle and from one or many of the phobias that have been identified in the world. Phobias are completely dependent on a particular individual. Some of the phobias are aerophobia -the fear of air, zoophobia -the fear of animals, call phobia -fear of beauty. The causes may vary completely but the disorders share a few things in common continued and overwhelming fear and worry.

Anxiety not only leads to a person not functioning normally, it can also make a person go low on self esteem, alcoholism and depression…

Some other phenomenon such as an anxiety attack is also a commonly heard these days. An anxiety attack is a sudden and unexpected arousal of fear or intense terror. This type of an attack strikes without warning. There are many physical and mental symptoms of the anxiety attack.

Mental symptoms:-

1. Nausea
2. Fear of going crazy or loosing control
3. Shortness of breath
4. A pounding heart

Physical symptoms:-

1. Fatigue
2. Insomnia
3. Sweating
4. Dizziness

There are many kinds of anxiety disorders. Most of the people who suffer from one type of disorder also might suffer from other types of disorders related to anxiety.

Substance abuse is closely related to anxiety. The causes and symptoms should be looked upon carefully by people and proper treatment must be taken.

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