Anxiety is a normal human emotion – many people feel anxious, or nervous, when faced with a problem at work, before taking a test, or making an important decision.
However, when this anxiety begins to control a person’ life and then that becomes a disorder.
Types of Anxiety Disorders
- Panic Disorder – suddenly feeling terrified; sweating, chest pains (may make the sufferer feel they are having a heart attack); difficulty breathing
- Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia) – over worrying about what others may think of us; of being judged and ridiculed
- Phobias – an intense, irrational, uncontrollable fear of objects e.g spiders, snakes, water; leads to avoidance which causes anxiety which then feeds into the phobia – a horrible cycle
- Generalised Anxiety Disorder – excessive, unrealistic worry and tension, sometimes about the smallest of things, or perhaps about nothing at all
Common symptoms include:
- Feelings of panic, fear, and uneasiness
- Problems sleeping
- Cold or sweaty hands and/or feet
- Shortness of breath
- Heart palpitations
- An inability to be still and calm
- Dry mouth
- Numbness or tingling in the hands or feet
- Nausea
- Muscle tension
- Dizziness
If you feel you are suffering from any of the above, please do give me a ring – these conditions are easily sorted, so long as you have the motivation to do so…
