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Anxiety Symptoms
"Anxiety symptoms can be terrifying, frustrating and tiring. The information you are about to read is the most important information and solution to anxiety disorders and it's symptoms that I have ever come across. The treatment of anxiety disorders and symptoms isn't complex, in fact it's very simple. I never thought it was possible that a disorder like anxiety, that is considered to be so complex can be cured so simply - now I help people become 100% anxiety free."
Jenny Saunders BSc, MSc
Psychologist
Anxiety symptoms are the result of an abnormal increase in the levels of adrenaline in the blood, which sets off a 'chain reaction' of normal, but inappropriate, bodily functions. Anxiety symptoms can affect a sufferer both physically and emotionally but it is important to note that there is not one anxiety symptom that represents any kind of threat to a sufferer.
Anxiety symptoms are caused by an exaggerated anxiety reaction which is controlled by the subconscious mind in a small organ called the amygdala. This organ alone is responsible for controlling the internal mechanisms that cause the sufferer to experience high anxiety, panic and all of the symptoms of anxiety they carry with them. The amygdala acts rather like a thermostat, which controls the anxiety level and is responsible for causing all of the symptoms of anxiety you experience.
Anxiety has three major components that determine the kind of symptoms experienced:
Firstly, there is a psycho-physiological (physical) component, which produces anxiety symptoms such as palpitations (racing heart), breathlessness, dizziness and sweating. This component produces anxiety symptoms which affect us on a purely psychological level and are mostly as a direct result of adrenalin release during the ‘fight or fight’ response.
Secondly, there is a psychological component, characterised by anxiety symptoms such as irritability, obsessions and lack of concentration and deep feelings of fear. These anxiety symptoms may be constant or may be more intense during an anxiety attack (panic attack). Like the physiological anxiety symptoms, these are harmless but they can make the sufferer feel helpless and desperate.
Finally, there may be an interpersonal component featuring an inclination to cling to other people for reassurance. Because anxiety symptoms cause such a vast range of sensations and thoughts, the sufferer often withdraws socially in order to protect themselves from potentially anxiety-provoking situations and stimuli.
Common Anxiety Symptoms
Everyone experiences some anxiety symptoms throughout their lives, usually a variation on the same group of basic symptoms, including:
- Smothering sensations and shortness of breath
- Racing heart, slow heart beat, palpitations
- Chest Pain
- 'Lump in throat' and difficulty swallowing
- Blanching (colour loss in the skin)
- Excessive Perspiration (sweating)
- Shaking or shivering (visibly or internally)
- Pain or numbness in the head, face, neck or shoulders
- Rapid gastric emptying
- Indigestion, heartburn, constipation and diarrhoea
- Sexual Dysfunction
- Symptoms of urinary tract infection
- Skin rashes
- Weakness/tingling in arms, hands or feet
- 'Electric shock' feelings (anywhere in the body)
- Dry mouth
- Insomnia
- Nightmares
- Fears of going mad or losing control
- Increased depression and suicidal feelings
- Aggression
- Symptoms like 'flu'
- Distorted vision
- Disturbed hearing
- Hormone problems
- Headaches and feelings of having a 'tight band around head'
- Sore eyes
- Agoraphobia
- Hallucinations
- 'Creeping' or 'pins and needles' sensations in The skin
- Increased sensitivity to light, sound, touch, and smell
- Hyperactivity
- Dramatic increase in sexual feelings
- Pain in the face or jaw (resembling toothache)
- Derealisation and Depersonalisation
- Panic Attacks
- OCD
Although these anxiety symptoms feel horrific and scary, the effects are harmless. The word 'feel' is the key here; the anxiety symptoms experienced are just feelings... sensations of a true emotional response that have become inappropriately activated as a response to danger - even when no real danger is present.
Anxiety symptoms cannot cause any actual harm, as they are simply exaggerated experiences of normal bodily sensations and reactions. However, if anxiety symptoms intensify and interfere with normal day-to-day activities, it is necessary to take appropriate action to eliminate them before they become too intrusive or dramatically reduce the sufferer’s experience of life.
Anxiety symptoms start to fade away, usually within hours of starting The Linden Method programme. The process of anxiety and anxiety symptom elimination can be very fast indeed, if a targeted programme of anxiety elimination is followed.
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