Our all emotion comes from within. The way we think and feel; it can be pleasant or unpleasant, happy or sad, confident or anxious. How healthy we are depends on how profoundly we are experiencing positive emotions and how effectively we are dealing with our real life surroundings. Anxiety is a state of emotion many of us may experienced at least few times in our lives. For example nervous flutter of butterflies in our stomach before exams or sleepless nights before any event or deadlines or worry about any stressful situation in life.
Anxiety can be conscious or unconscious; is an unpleasant emotional state, in which someone may experience intense, excessive and persistent worry and fear of something; followed by psychological and physiological sign & symptoms; such as feelings of dread, uneasiness and worry, difficulty in concentration, restlessness and often accompanied by nervous behavior such as pacing back and forth. And physical symptoms i.e. fast heart rate, inability to catch one’s breath, rapid breathing, somatic complaints, fatigue, sweating, feeling tired, tightness in the abdominal and nausea.
Minimal amount of anxiety some time plays positive role in effective survival; but constant and high level of anxiety negatively affect individual’s cognitive abilities, emotional experience and dealing with real life surrounding.
Three forms of anxiety which you may experience
Realistic anxiety (Real)
Realistic anxiety is when the source of Anxiety exists in reality. Realistic anxiety involves actual threats to our physical or psychological safety that could harm us or cause unmanageability in our adjustment and survival. Any individual may became anxious about swimming, if he-she doesn’t know, how to swim? Anxiety symptoms can appear in various physical and psychological forms.
Neurotic anxiety (Imagination)
Neurotic Anxiety is a state when source of anxiety comes from within our mind (unconsciously) without existing real threats; and our mind starts “imagining” about what if? Something happens wrong? And the “imagination” some time could be associated with existing threats and most of the time it is just an “imagination” in which individual may feel something is really going to happen bad and harmful, leads to anxiety and related symptoms. Any individual may became anxious about imagining “drowning in swimming pool” because they don’t know how to swim? Anxiety symptoms can appear in various physical and psychological forms.
Moral anxiety (values and conflict)
Moral anxiety arises from conflict between our value system and action has been taken or will be taken in reality. It may occurs when someone has done some particular action, that is not acceptable by their values and norms, or needs to take some actions for future because of the need of the real life situation and that “action” is not going to be accepted by the individuals value system.
However, when anxiety, stress, fear and constant worrying have taken over someone’s daily life, stopping from doing the things they normally enjoy, they may are suffering from anxiety disorder.
Anxiety disorder
Anxiety disorder is a condition in which a person may experience anxiety that does not go away and can get worse over time. Occasional or situational anxiety gets recovered by the time. But anxiety disorder is different. This is a group of mental health condition that cause constant and overwhelming anxiety and fear. The excessive anxiety can make a person to avoid work, school, family get-togethers, and other social situations and over time it might worsen.
Types of anxiety disorder
There are several types of anxiety disorders
- Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
- Panic disorder
- Phobia
- Social anxiety
- Separation anxiety
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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