Checklist of common anxiety symptoms
- Breathlessness
- Palpitations and erratic heart beat
- Trembling
- Sweating Choking sensations or finding it hard to swallow
- Nausea
- Feeling dizzy or unsteady
- Hot flushes
- Fears of going crazy or losing control
- Fears of dying
- Dissociation - feeling detached, out of touch or ‘unreal’
Anxiety can manifest itself in a number of different forms. Among the diagnosable anxiety disorders are:
- Panic disorder People who suffer from this condition are vulnerable to acute anxiety attacks that feature several of the symptoms listed above. These intense attacks usually last for several minutes. In the CBT model of panic disorder, sufferers catastrophically misinterpret the physical and psychological effects of anxious arousal ...
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