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Anxiety
Neurosis
It is a mild deviation
of mind with unpleasant, distressing
emotion usually to be distinguished
from fear. This is not to be linked
up with an identifiable fear. Fear is
aroused by the perception of actual
or threatened danger. Anxiety arises
when the danger is imagined or cannot
be identified or clearly perceived.
It is a normal response in stressful
situations, but frequently experienced
in many mental disorders. Anxiety is
experienced as a feeling of suspense,
helplessness or alternating hope and
despair together with excessive alertness.
The bodily changes such as:
" I have chest pain"
" I couldn't sleep well and often
disturbed with dreams."
" I couldn't concentrate on my
work. I cannot mingle with my colleagues
and family."
" I feel inferior to everybody".
These victims palpitate with more sweating
and eat little or much. Anxiety makes
them more irritable which makes them
roam here and there. They will be with
frowned face, gloomy look and confusion.
They feel inferior in every activity.
Many patients suffer from diarrhoea
without the usual cause, which make
the practitioners to diagnose as IBS
the irritable bowel syndrome. Adolescents
experience loss of sexual derives such
as impotence, premature ejaculation.
Elderly people experience Hypertension.
Anxious children experience bed-wetting.
How does it happens?
Whenever the victim is anxious the adrenaline
and cortisone are released in the blood
stream. It quickens the heart with palpitation,
breathing becomes shallow; the muscles
becomes tense; the energy is wasted
with this abnormal situation which leads
to unbounded tiredness and headache.
In many, a different anxiety neurosis
is recognized normally. Among them "Phobic
Anxiety is common where the irrational
fear of certain situations, confining
places, particular things and insects
characterize this phobia. "Panic
attacks" are neurosis with no evidence
of reason for extreme fear or tension
such as fear from disease and future.
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