Understanding Anxiety and Anxiety Causes

Anxiety - Understanding

Anxiety and fear are normal parts of life human life. However it is important to note the difference between the two emotional responses - Anxiety and Fear.

Anxiety is an irrational emotional response to an imagined threat. While fear is a rational emotional response to a real threat.

Anxiety is described as a more psychological stress caused due to prolonged thought processes, which perpetuate it. Anxiety may eventually cause irrational fears, specific phobias and panic attacks. When there is perpetual, low-grade anxiety, a person often works too hard when breathing. If there is hyper anxiety or a panic attack, there is great excitement, and the individual may hyperventilate.

Anxiety and panic attacks can affect many aspects of a person's life. Anxiety might affect a person's ability to make friends, perform well at work, and try new things. Sometimes people who suffer from anxiety revert to alcohol or drug abuse. Individuals tend to chew on their anxieties and some often worry more about experiencing it than about the actual situation, which causes it. Research suggests that anxiety symptoms can become worse when a person is under stress. It is important to remember that anxiety, panic attacks and related emotional stress responses are likely to be caused by multiple factors, including behavioral, environmental, as well as chemical.

Anxiety-Causes

It is important to understand which form of anxiety disorder a person has. Researchers have been studying the effects of anxiety on the brain and have found much insight into how it effects. Modern studies indicate that as a result of past, present or perceived circumstances that occurred to an individual, a chemical imbalance may have occurred in the brain. The emotions we feel are based on the release and reuptake of neurotransmitters in the brain. This is how cells within the brain communicate. Feelings off anxiety are triggered by an imbalance of specific 'neurochemicals' in the brain. When we feel stressed, anxious or depressed, our brains may be releasing or absorbing (re-uptake) chemicals either too rapidly or too slowly. If left untreated, a chemical imbalance disorder may increase in severity as time passes.