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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Living with emetophobia. Emetophobia. That sound – the awful ‘scratching’ noise and the mere thought of someone being sick. This was the beginning of my ...

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 ...

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. ...

Psychological aspects of anxiety. Adrenaline also affects us psychologically by affecting the way we feel and think by producing (usually) a feeling of FEAR. In ...