Anxiety

History of anxiety The English word ‘anxiety’ has venerable roots. Like its European cognates angoisse (French), Angst (German), angoscia (Italian), and angustia (Spanish), anxiety originates from the ancient Greek angh, which can be found in the ancient Greek words meaning ‘to press tight’, ‘to strangle’, ‘to be weighed down with …

What is anxiety? You know those days when you’ve got the mean reds … the blues are because you’re getting fat or maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re sad, that’s all. But the mean reds are horrible. You’re afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don’t know what …

Anxiety Anxiety is ubiquitous to the human condition. From the beginning of recorded history, philosophers, religious leaders, scholars, and more recently physicians as well as social and medical scientists have attempted to unravel the mysteries of anxiety andto develop interventions that would effectively deal with this pervasive and troubling condition …

Anxiety and depression. It is not uncommon for children to be diagnosed with both depression and an anxiety disorder, or depression and general anxiety. About half of people diagnosed with depression are also diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. https://therapyforanxiety.org/social-anxiety-disorder/ Social anxiety disorder Children with depression may display these symptoms:• Depressed …

Theories of Anxiety The origins and meaning of anxiety and fear have preoccupied many of the great experimental and clinical theorists of the 20th century. Freud was concerned with the problem of anxiety throughout his career and revised his theory at least four times. Much of the history of learning …

THE BEHAVIORAL DIMENSION FOR ANXIETY Behavioral symptoms associated with anxiety may be classified into acute and chronic responses. In animals there is first the recognition of threat, perhaps associated with behavioral signs of fear, followed by four basic responses to threat: withdrawal, immobility, aggressive defense, and submission (Marks,1987). The behavioral …

SOMATIC SYMPTOMS FOR ANXIETY The most common somatic symptoms associated with anxiety involve the muscular, sensory, cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, genitourinary and autonomic system. Somatic Symptoms Associated with Anxiety/PanicSystem: Symptoms.Muscular-skeletal: Pains and aches, twitchings, stiffness, myoclonic jerks, grinding of teeth, unsteadyvoice, increased muscular tone, spasms, tremors, restlessness, wobbling legs,clumsiness.Sensory: Tinnitus, blurring …

DEFINING ANXIETY: SEMANTIC DIFFICULTIES Anxiety, like other emotions, is difficult to describe. The words used to describe it only approximate our inner experience and may lead to confusion. Any examination of the phenomenology of anxiety is colored by the lexicon in which it is conducted. The English word anxiety comes …

Anxiety? It comes over me all at once. First of all it is like something pressing on my eyes. My head gets so heavy, there’s a dreadful buzzing and I feel so giddy that I almost fall over. Then there’s something crushing my chest so that I can’t get my …

What causes anxiety?Some people seem to be born with a tendency to be anxious and indeed recent research suggests that arisk for certain forms of anxiety disorders can be inherited. Other people develop anxiety disorders after having experienced specific traumatic, stressful incidents orevents in their life – for example, divorce, …