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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 …

Understanding more about your body. Your brain and your body communicate with each other via your nervous system. If you hit your thumb with a hammer, your nerves carry messages about that to your brain and you feel pain (and probably saysomething unprintable too). Your brain sends messages back to …

Management and treatment of anxiety. As you will have seen from the personal accounts of anxiety given, whilst the principles of anxiety are thesame, people are individuals and therefore find different treatment combinations helpful when it comes to the management of their anxiety. The guidelines set out the currently recommended …

Living with emetophobia. Emetophobia. That sound – the awful ‘scratching’ noise and the mere thought of someone being sick. This was the beginning of my phobia. It all started when I was about five years old. My sister Anna was being sick, not so much violently but she was being …

Living with health anxiety. Having always been an anxious child, it seems quite inevitable that at 20 years old, moving in with my partner, leaving college and starting full-time employment, my anxiety disorder introduced itself into my life. After an attack of irritable bowel syndrome, which was misdiagnosed as a …

Behavioural aspects of anxiety. These symptoms are what we DO when we are anxious – i.e. our response to our thoughts, feelings and physical symptoms. The most common behavioural symptom of anxiety is avoidance. How many times have you simply avoided putting yourself into a situation where you have previously …