Anxiety

Children with Separation Anxiety often have unrealistic fears of being separated from the important people in their lives and are persistently worried that something terrible will happen to them. They can become clingy, tearful and may refuse to go to school or even leave the house. In some cases they are even afraid of sleeping in their own room separate from their parents.

When a fear severely impairs a person’s ability to function properly, they would be diagnosed as having a phobia. A phobia is characterized by an irrational fear of a specific object or situation that interferes with an individual’s ability to function.

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by apprehension or excessive anxiety about everyday life issues. This anxiety is usually very difficult to control or stop, and people with this type of anxiety disorder often find themselves being in a constant state of worry.

While the term Hysteria is seldom used in reference to a medical condition today, the concept still remains and what was once the diagnosable condition Hysteria disorder is now more acceptably know as a somatization disorder or histrionic personality disorder.

A nervous breakdown can be described as an acute emotional or
psychological collapse. The term nervous breakdown is not a medical term,
but rather a colloquial term used by the general public to refer to and characterize
a wide range of mental illnesses.

Panic Disorder is a type of anxiety disorder characterized by the experience of at least three panic attacks in a three week period under circumstances not involving physical exertion or life threatening events.

A panic attack is a physiological response to fear or sudden anxiety. The object of the fear can be either physical (like a spider) or an event (fear of flying, fear of heart attack or dying) or it can be to an imagined situation or event. For many sufferers panic attacks occur without an apparent trigger, they just 'happen' despite your efforts to curtail them, and this causes a great deal of distress and anxiety.

Test anxiety is a type of anxiety that can affect a test taker before, during, or after a test. It is an issue that many students deal with at one time or another. Anxiety is a normal human feeling that is part of life, and can often serve as a good form of adrenaline-- for instance, butterflies before making a speech, taking a test, or performing on stage. However, there are methods how to overcome nervousness and anxiety when they interfere with performance.

Emotions play an important part in our daily lives. Fear is one such emotion that is pre-programmed into all animals and people as an instinctual response to potential danger. As for what is fear biologically speaking, when a person experiences fear, certain areas in their brain such as the amygdala and the hypothalamus are immediately activated and appear to control the first physical response to fear. Chemicals such as adrenaline and the stress hormone cortisol are released into the blood stream causing certain physical reactions.

In this ebook we want to provide valuable insight on how our mood and state of mind affect the body, specifically our heart. Most people know that stress is a contributing factor for heart disease, among other ailments. Did you consider that constant worrying about things you cannot control may also be bad?
Anxiety is difficult to describe concretely because it has so many different symptoms and degrees of intensity.