Anxiety is felt in the body, the mind and the emotions.  Anxiety is both physiological and psychological.  Anxiety effects thinking, emotions, physical functioning on many levels and behavior.

When they all come together, it make us feel unpleasant.  It is often called worry, uneasiness, fear, dread, being uptight, stress or apprehension..  

Because anxiety has such a broad reach, its called a generalized mood disorder.

It may seem strange, but the person experiencing anxiety may not know the anxiety cause.  We often don’t know the trigger of our anxiety.

Anxiety is different from fear in that with fear, the danger is present and known.  With anxiety, we may feel dread of an unknown threat, or that there’s no way to avoid the danger.

Fear, on the other hand, is obvious.  And when fear is felt, we react by either fighting, fleeing or freezing.  

Fear and anxiety also differ in that fear is a present danger.  The anxiety cause is about a nameless future dread.

We have too many causes for anxiety in our lives today!

Even if becoming anxious is the normal result of stress, we are still negatively impacted by the things it does to our mind and body.

A panic attack is a heightened sense of anxiety that comes on suddenly. 

Some of the physiological effects of anxiety include headaches, digestive disturbance, shortness of breath, exhaustion, irregular heartbeat, tight muscles. Your body is reacting in a way that’s designed to give you the best chance of escaping or fighting the danger.

Your heart rate is increased, you begin to sweat, and instead of serving your digestion and immune system, your blood is supplies to your large muscles.

In addition to the physiological effects of anxiety, there are also mental and emotional effects.  The thoughts and emotions chance to looking for danger signs, imagining the worst, feeling jumpy and irritable, dreading the future and difficulty concentrating.  It may seem like situations and people are threats and dangerous. It’s common to have obsessive thoughts.  When experiencing anxiety, fear of dying is possible.  When people have anxiety, they may interpret the physical symptoms as proof that they have a terminal disease.