Anxiety Disorder Symptoms
Anxiety disorder symptoms are the outcome of an irregular increase in levels of adrenaline in the blood, which activates a chain reaction of regular, but improper physical and psychological functions.
Anxiety disorder symptoms might severely affect a sufferer both psychologically. Overstressed anxiety reaction causes anxiety disorder symptoms. Anxiety possesses three prime elements that decide the type of symptoms experienced.
First is the psycho-physiological element, which generates anxiety symptoms as such palpitations, dizziness, sweating, and breathlessness.
Next is the psychological element, characterized by anxiety disorder symptoms as such obsessions, deep sensations of terror, irritability, and lack of concentration. These anxiety disorder symptoms might turn continuous or may be extreme at the time of an anxiety attack (panic attack).
At last, there is an interpersonal element, featuring a tendency to stick to other people for reassurance. Because, anxiety disorder symptoms cause a wide range of sensations and thoughts, which sufferers often extract socially to secure themselves from potentially anxiety evoking situations and triggers.
Common Anxiety Disorder Symptoms:
Almost everyone experiences some kind of anxiety symptoms throughout their lives. The primary and common anxiety disorder symptoms are anxiety and terror, though people characterize anxiety disorders through additional physical and psychological symptoms.
Emotional/Psychological Symptoms
Fear, nervousness, anxiety
Selective attention or impaired concentration
Bad temper, confusion, restless feeling, and avoidance
Hypervigilance and behavioral problems, especially in youths and kids
Agitation and tenseness
Strong wish to escape
Fear of death or going mad
Uncertainty and self-consciousness
Nightmares
Suicidal feelings and increased depression
Anger
Agoraphobia
Hallucinations
Hyperactivity and pins or needles sensations in skin
Panic attacks, depersonalization, derealization, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Physical Symptoms
Chest pain, racing heartbeats, and heart palpitations
Chills or hot flashes
Cold and sweaty hands
Indigestion or nausea
Dizziness, sweating, and diarrhea
Shortness of breath and frequent urination
Muscle tension or aches
Insomnia, headaches, jitters, tremors, fatigue and twitches
Lump in throat
Excessive perspiration
Loss of skin color
Numbness in face, shoulders, neck and head
Sexual dysfunction
Signs of urinary tract infection
Irritation of skin
Weakness in hands and feet
Dry mouth and electric shock sensations anywhere in the body
Flu like symptoms
Unclear vision and troubled hearing
Hormone problems
Painful eyes
Toothache and increased sensitivity to sound, light, smell and touch.
Overview:
Due to the vast range of physical anxiety disorder symptoms, anxiety patients often incorrectly assume that, they have a medical disorder. They usually consult several doctors and make countless trips to the clinic, before the diagnosis of their anxiety disorder conditions.
Actually, people with anxiety disorders are 3-5 times more prone to visit doctors than non-sufferers. Hence, it is quite vital to beware of the sudden physiological forms of anxiety.
Anxiety disorder symptoms cannot cause any real harm, since they are just overstated experiences of usual bodily sensations and responses. However, if anxiety disorders symptoms strengthen and obstruct with normal lifestyle, it is essential to take proper action to eliminate them as soon as possible.