Category Archives: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...