What is Chronic Anxiety Disorder?
To start off, I should explain anxiety so that you have a clear understanding of the word.
Anxiety is a built in mechanism that reacts to a sudden alarm, danger or a threat that alerts your system to react. This reaction is built into your body to keep you from harm. It is ironic that it can also turn into something it was not intended for—anxiety attacks and panic attacks. This anxiety served our cavemen ancestors well when confronted by some of the mammals of their time. The system is called “Fight or Flight” response. That meaning that when alarmed, you make a quick decision to fight the danger or run.
The chronic anxiety disorder suffer has these anxiety alert far more often than other anxiety attack suffers and the reason being that the danger or fear is one that seems to appear more often.
Here is the process your body goes through when this alarm goes off. You are alarmed by some situation. A signal is sent to the brain to a cell. That cell then sends the signal to another cell in the brain. Then that cell sends a signal to part of your nervous system. The nervous system alerts a gland that releases adrenaline. This adrenaline stimulates the heart first and then spreads to the whole body. This is why chronic anxiety suffers have the symptom of a racing pounding heart as one of the first symptoms they notice. Anyone who encounters a situation goes through the same process at the beginning. Most of us, our body’s reaction, get a rush so-to-speak, we settle down after we access the danger if the danger is assessed as not a threat.
Not so for the chronic anxiety suffer. The danger is not really present. What surfaces is a fear that is embedded in the mind. The threat seems real enough. So real that their body is alerted and a series of symptoms start reacting. Scary symptoms such as:
• Racing heart
• Labored breathing
• Left arm numbness and tingling
• Dizzy
• Stomach pains
Anxiety attack and panic attack suffers can rest assured that these attacks do not and will not harm the body or the body’s system. There is not one case on record of someone dying from one of these attacks.
Regardless of the amount of time involved while suffering one of the attacks, the body’s built in mechanism (nervous system) will bring the body back to a normal state after the body has had enough stimulation. That is what the second part of the nervous system function is. To take action to calm the body back down. This usually happens after your mind has decided that the danger is no longer a threat.
There are a few different types of anxiety attacks listed below:
• Social anxiety—Anxiety brought on by being in or going to a social event.
• Environmental Anxiety—Brought on by drug or alcohol abuse.
• Physical Anxiety—Brought on by past or present physical abuse
• Generalized anxiety—Brought on by the mind sensing a danger.
Resources available for help.
1. Talk to a doctor and give him all of the symptoms you have so he/she can evaluate the condition to make a diagnosis.
2. Seek help from a local group that has been formed to help people with this type of condition.
3. Go online and go to the “Search Box” on your computer. In this box type in “anxiety forums”. This will bring up different forums you can either visit or join. Search their question and answer base for your type of condition or type your own question to receive responses on.
4. Go online and seek programs that will help you solve your disorder.
I have a web site that you can view with more insight on disorders.
To you success.
By: kcraven
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Craven Solutions, has spent the past year studying, researching and interviewing doctors, therapist and specialist in the area of Anxiety Attacks and Panic Attacks. I have a FREE mini course I offer to help suffers. www.anxiety-panic-depression.com
