Signs and Symptoms

Most of the people who suffer from anxiety are unaware of the fact that the unusual things that happen to them are in fact anxiety disorders. In order to detect and treat this disease as soon as possible here are the most important experiences signs which may give you a clue about whether you suffer or not of anxiety. If you have:

• felt your chest tight and having problems with your breathing, which have led to the increasing fear that you would not be able to breathe at a certain point;
• felt that your life is going out of control and that you are going insane;
• experienced anxious thoughts which haunted you and they would not disappear no matter what you did;
• normal situations, which never bothered you before, got you out of your mind;
• feared of getting stuck in traffic jams;
• felt uncomfortable in enclosed buildings that for most of the people seemed huge (like supermarkets and cinemas) and even going to the hairdresser seemed a burden to you;
• experienced what it seemed to be a heart attack, but in fact it was just anxiety,

then it is high time that you go to a doctor and tell him about your symptoms. You should not omit none of the feelings you are experiencing.

Symptoms like the dizziness which eventually lead to panic, the impossibility of breathing because of the tightness you feel in your throat and chest, the alert rhythm of your heart accompanied by tingling, the hot flushes which are immediately after followed by waves of anxiety, obsessions and unwanted thoughts which come back involuntarily, a feeling of estrangement of everything that surrounds you and a continuous fear that anxiety will defeat you in the end, should neither be ignored nor hidden from a doctor.

You may argue that it is normal to worry and you may be true to a certain extend. However, when the worries monopolize your mind and everything else, starting with your job and ending with your family and your health are affected by them they are no longer normal, but signs of anxiety disorder. Besides the above mentioned symptoms, anxiety disorder also causes headaches and insomnia, thus making your body unable to function properly.

According to Charles Goodstein, professor doctor of psychiatry, anxiety is not characteristic to a small segment of population for a short period of time, but it is rather common for the majority of people for a long period of time. According to the same view, all of us are unconsciously suffering of anxiety. The problem arises when the intensity of this disease gets so big that the body is no longer able to cope with it. This is when the doctors should intervene and treat anxiety disorder.