Symptoms of anxiety?

Answer 1

Anxiety attacks-
* Rapid heart beat, pounding heart or palpitations
* Sweating
* Shaking visibly or inside
* Choking sensations or lump in throat
* Smothering or shortness of breath sensations
* Chest pain or discomfort
* Nausea, bloating, indigestion or abdominal discomfort
* Dizziness or unsteadiness
* Feeling light-headed
* Derealisation (feeling unreal or dreamy)
* Depersonalisation (feeling outside yourself or like you don't exist)
* Fear of losing control or going crazy
* Paresthesias (numbness or tingling sensations) in face, extremities or body
* Chills or hot flushes
* Skin losing color
* Blushing or skin blotches
* Urgently needing to urinate or defecate
Anxiety- You always feel on edge, sometimes out of control. You may experience anxiety attacks. You always worry about something, like going into social situations.

Answer 2

"The PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS of anxiety are caused by the brain sending messages to parts of the body to prepare for the "fight or flight" response. The heart, lungs and other parts of the body work faster. The brain also releases stress hormones, including adrenaline. The following symptoms can occur as a result:

abdominal discomfort
diarrhoea
dry mouth
rapid heartbeat or palpitations
tightness or pain in chest
shortness of breath
dizziness
frequent urination
difficulty swallowing


PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS can include:

insomnia
irritability or anger
inability to concentrate
fear of madness
feeling unreal and not in control of your actions (depersonalisation)

TYPES OF ANXIETY DISORDERS:
Sometimes anxiety is associated with a physical illness, such a thyroid disorder. When the illness is treated the anxiety usually improves.

Anxiety is often a symptom of another mental health problem, such as depression, personality disorder, alcohol misuse or withdrawal from long-term use of tranquillisers such as diazepam (Valium).

Anxiety is the main symptom of several other mental illnesses. These are called anxiety disorders."

Answer 3

Restlessness, muscles tightened especially around the neck/shoulder area (hence shoulder pain), wanting to be away from the situation, fear, fidgeting with something, cold sweats. These are ignored many times as opposed to the more obvious symptoms but they indicate serious anxiety.

Answer 4

hyper ventilating, heart palpitations, hands becoming 'locked' or 'frozen', wide staring eyes, conviction you are about to die or have a heart attack, sense of loss of control and detachment from the immediate environment. Awareness that this all needs to stop but not able to stop it.

Answer 5

Exaggerated and unreasonable worries which disturb sleep and appetite.

Answer 6

Worrying that your worrying is becoming worryingly out of control

Answer 7

bad stomach ache, feeling faint, feeling like you are going to vomit, the feeling of running away from the situation, dizziness.