Anxiety Symptoms

Almost everybody has experienced anxiety.  Your palms are sweaty, you’re all worried or you feel scared.  This is all normal.  But if you are having episodes of intense panic or fear, then most likely you are suffering from anxiety attacks or panic attacks.  With anxiety attacks there is usually a trigger.  For example, you are stuck in an elevator or you are about to give a speech in a few hours.  However there are also cases wherein the attacks come out of the blue.  Read more... (505 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Do you fear that others might belittle your or see you in a bad light?  Are you afraid of being humiliated in pubic?  If your answer is yes, then you might have social anxiety or social phobia.  Others characterize social anxiety as being overly shy.  But in some cases when shyness leads to a person avoiding any social situation, then this becomes a phobia.  Social anxiety symptoms center on being in public.  If you are wary of speaking in public, meeting new people, being teased or criticized, making small talk or even making a phone call or going on a date, then you might have social anxiety.  Read more... (527 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

A person with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is what we call a worrywart. These people are constantly worrying about anything and everything.  Worries and fears control their lives making it hard for them to do anything else.  They are in a constant state of worry and are often tense.  They worry about the same thing most other people worry about: bill, the mortgage, kids, career, etc.  however, they take worrying to a higher level.  The constant worrying can affect career, relationships and can lead to low self confidence and self esteem.  Read more... (536 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

The dictionary defines anxiety as “a painful apprehensive uneasiness of the mind usually over an impending or anticipated ill fearful concern or interest”.   Most of us have had the unfortunate experience of being anxious.  For most people it’s an extreme worried like feeling, for others it’s like a feeling of impending doom and in some cases, anxiety symptoms are so severe, they take over one’s life.  For people with severe anxiety symptoms, fear is so blown up it has become irrational, destructive and consuming.

Cause of Anxiety  Read more... (500 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)