Anxiety refers to feelings of worry, nervousness, or a sense of apprehension, typically about an upcoming event where the outcome is uncertain. Anxiety is usually experienced in high pressure situations, for example in exams.
Although the experience of anxiety will vary from person to person, feeling stressed, worried, and having anxious thoughts are common symptoms. Other common symptoms of anxiety includes: difficulty concentrating, restlessness, avoidance behavior, rapid heartbeat, trembling or shaking, feeling light headed or faint, numbness, upset stomach or nausea, and sweating.
2.10.1: psychological anxiety disorders
Where symptoms of anxiety occurs frequently, occur over a period of time, and interfere with daily life, it is typically considered an anxiety …show more content…
These thoughts and acts can take over a person’s life and while people with OCD usually know that their obsessions and compulsions are an over reactions, they are unable to stop them.
• Social Anxiety Disorder: in social anxiety disorder the person has severe anxiety about being criticized or negatively evaluated by others. This leads to the person avoiding social events and other public situations for fear of doing something that leads to embarrassment or humiliation.
• Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): PTSD refers to a set of symptoms that can occur after exposure to a frightening and traumatic events. Symptoms include a sense of relieving the traumatic events (through flashbacks or nightmares), avoidance of places, people or activities which remind the person of the event, feeling numb or detached from others, having negative thoughts about oneself and the world, feeling irritable, angry or wound up, and having trouble
Although the experience of anxiety will vary from person to person, feeling stressed, worried, and having anxious thoughts are common symptoms. Other common symptoms of anxiety includes: difficulty concentrating, restlessness, avoidance behavior, rapid heartbeat, trembling or shaking, feeling light headed or faint, numbness, upset stomach or nausea, and sweating.
2.10.1: psychological anxiety disorders
Where symptoms of anxiety occurs frequently, occur over a period of time, and interfere with daily life, it is typically considered an anxiety …show more content…
These thoughts and acts can take over a person’s life and while people with OCD usually know that their obsessions and compulsions are an over reactions, they are unable to stop them.
• Social Anxiety Disorder: in social anxiety disorder the person has severe anxiety about being criticized or negatively evaluated by others. This leads to the person avoiding social events and other public situations for fear of doing something that leads to embarrassment or humiliation.
• Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): PTSD refers to a set of symptoms that can occur after exposure to a frightening and traumatic events. Symptoms include a sense of relieving the traumatic events (through flashbacks or nightmares), avoidance of places, people or activities which remind the person of the event, feeling numb or detached from others, having negative thoughts about oneself and the world, feeling irritable, angry or wound up, and having trouble