Anxiety disorder

CURRENT STATUS: On a daily basis, Rosa Lee awakens to the effects of substance abuse. Her stomach cramps wake her every morning at about 6:30am. Due to her symptoms, to relieve some of the pain, she must make her daily trek to the clinic for her methadone treatment. The amount of pain relief involved means that taking a day off from treatment, is not an option for Rosa Lee. It can take more than an hour on some days, including several bus changes, in order to reach the clinic for treatment. But…

Anxiety disorders are on the rise in our country, because of the multifarious etiological influences surrounding this mental illness, anxiety is often misdiagnosed: are we causing an anxiety epidemic? The interconnection of the biological, psychological and environmental influences of this disorder is often debated, questioning the true origin; is anxiety predetermined by our genetic makeup or do social and cognitive influences shape the severity of the disease. I believe all these factors play…

Humans and animals have always experienced anxiety. Which is why there are not many records that show the beginnings of anxiety. Another problem with the findings of anxiety is that when people began to reach out to health care professionals the records show that patients were considered to be faking the symptoms. Doctors and psychiatrists seemed to think that there was nothing wrong with their patients. The patients were told that they were only dealing with stress or nerves. Panic attacks were…

Feelings of anxiety is a reaction that we all go through when faced with a new situation or challenges, taking an exam, making presentations at work or at school, or worrying about our family. However when our worries, fears and stress becomes overwhelming and affect our daily life, it is no longer a normal response. “Anxiety is a natural response that occurs within us when there is fear, feelings of danger, threat to oneself or when we are faced with a stressful situation. Our body reacts…

Imagine you’re playing outside and it starts to rain out of nowhere. Without giving it much thought you continue to play, but minutes later you feel a shooting pain all throughout your body as if you had just been tased. You are lying on the ground unable to move and unaware of what had just happened to you. Several months later you wake in a hospital bed with flowers and family members surrounding you. Little did you know that you were put into a coma after being struck by lightning. Being…

Definition/description: The definition of anxiety is “a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome”. Almost everyone has some form of anxiety, for some people anxiety come when they are getting ready for a big meeting at work or the first day of school or before they get married, this kind of anxiety is normal and healthy to have, it is just nerves and a temporary worry before something happens, this is not the anxiety that…

Anxiety is a problem that many individuals struggle with today. It is a state of constant fear, often from traumatic events or stress. Chronic anxiety can be caused from too much activity in the sympathetic nervous system, which controls human’s fight or flight response. The sympathetic nervous system is part of the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system controls involuntary bodily processes, such as digestion. The sympathetic nervous system controls the body’s response in…

Library of Medicine (U.S NLM) describes a phobia as, “…a type of anxiety disorder. It is a strong, irrational fear of something that poses little or no real danger (“Phobias: MedlinePlus”).” In 2013, PsychCentral.com reported that four to five percent of the United States’ residents suffer from one or more phobias in a given year (“Facts About Phobias”). In 2014, The Motley Fool reported that the most common phobia was the fear of…

Mary is a forty-two-year-old, Caucasian, heterosexual female previously diagnosed with generalized anxiety and PTSD. Her anxiety onset began at age fifteen with panic attacks following the divorce of her parents and the separation from her father. Mary has undergone one on one therapy and group therapy for the past nine years. Mary’s presenting problem is similar to her PTSD symptoms, she is experiencing emotion dysregulation, memory problems, an inability to focus and feels like she is…

Prior to reading this article, I knew very little about anxiety and its effects on individuals. I knew that anxiety causes people to be worried and nervous very often, and occasionally for no observable reason. I knew it can cause people to fear interacting with other individuals. I had a vague knowledge of anxiety’s physical effects on the body, such as rapid heart rate and accelerated breathing. I had no knowledge of what “The Anxiety Game” mentioned in the title was and no idea what it could…