Monday, February 2, 2009

What is the Usual Cause For Anxiety Disorder

By Ed Lathrop

Anxiety is a very popular word today. Many people suffer from anxiety in varying degrees. There are large numbers of people who feel normal a fair percentage of the time, but on occasion, they experience attacks of anxiety or panic. During these attacks, their lives change in many ways. They cannot function as they normally do and they experience physical sensations which range from uncomfortable to extremely frightening.

Nervousness is a normal human condition, everyone has a bout with nervousness once in a while. With nervousness, you always knows why it is happening, and what it will take for the nervousness to disappear. However, anxiety doesn't work this way. One of the things unique about anxiety is that it is bewildering because you don't know what it is causing this anxiety you feel.

Nervousness On Steroids

So, the difference between normal nervousness and a true anxiety disorder is largely the degree of the nervousness. When any person is in a state of nervousness, adrenaline will flow through the bloodstream and this will cause nervous symptoms.

We all know how regular nervousness makes us feel. However, while these feelings may not be comfortable, they are usually tolerable. Unlike ordinary nervousness, the large amounts of adrenaline secreted into the bloodstream during a panic attack, causes feelings the anxiety sufferer often describes as terrifying!

It's Not All In Your Head

Among the more disconcerting feelings anxiety brings about is it can sometimes play tricks on a person's vision. Objects may actually appear to float or move. Of course, this will make a normal, well adjusted individual think he or she is in need of psychiatric help.

It may be comforting for a person experiencing anxiety attacks to realize many other people also experience them. It is beneficial to know many, many people have recovered from anxiety disorder as well. If you are one who now has an anxiety disorder, or maybe just extreme nervousness, or perhaps an occasional panic attack, remember you're not alone and you can overcome this condition as a great many others have.

The Cause in Unimportant

Beating through the bushes of the past does not accomplish anything when looking for a way to overcome anxiety disorder. There are many ways for a person to have become anxious and riddled by panic attacks. Pinning down the reason for anxiety will be of no help. It is, however, important for the sufferer to not blame him or herself.

At this point, I have to reinforce the fact anxiety is a nervous condition, not a mental one. An anxiety sufferer's problem is he or she is having too many severe adrenaline secretions. This is what needs to be overcome. There is nothing Freudian about this fact.

The main thing to understand about recovering from anxiety disorder is that it requires us to accept the horrifying feelings we get when an anxiety or panic attack strike. By not accepting these feelings, we add more adrenaline to our systems and make matters worse. Of course, no one can guarantee accepting these feelings will cure anxiety in every instance, but we do know it is a necessary first step.

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