The physical effects of anxiety

Most people have heard about the fight or flight response. This is a physical response when we face what we see as a danger or alarming circumstances. Your reaction will be on of two, flight or fight.
This is how our bodies reacts to take care of itself, get out of the danger, either fight to win, or run to get away from the danger. When this happens the body get a physical reaction and release a chemical called adrenalin, and this triggers physical changes as these anxiety attack symptoms:

- breathing faster to increase oxygen in the body,
- faster heart rate to increase blood flow to the muscles,
- more tension in muscles for fast response,
- trembling or shaking,
and others...

This reactions will make us better prepared to fight or flight. F.ex. will better blood flow to the muscles make us stronger or faster. This survival mechanism has evolved over millions of years to protect us from danger and can still be useful for us today.

Modern is not really dangerous like it was before on a physical level. What causes anxiety today, social settings, have a presentation at work or in school, running away or fight does´t make sense. We have to learn to think about a practical solution.

Also today the physical changes can be helpful, but sometimes it is mental response that is required rather than physical ones.

Suffer from anxiety makes you think in a different way.

"Sometimes when I worry I feel really awful. My worries go round and round in circles in my head and I start to worry that I won´t be able to cope. The more I worry, the more I feel - I feel anxious, on the edge and tense. Sometimes it gets so bad that I can´t sit still."

Anxiety attack symptoms is a lot of different feelings, being nervous or frightened, or felling panic or terror. Having anxiety is normal, as mentioned earlier, it is useful and help us to get out of dangerous situations. It is still smart to feel anxious walking home in dark streets, there might be danger, not from wild animals but from "wild" people.

Some anxiety is necessary and normal, even though we don´t like it at all. Anxiety helps us to avoid danger.

All of us have felt anxious,

it is a necessary part to stay alive. From early times human beings have felt fear, felt threatened or frightened and had anxiety attack symptoms. It is when you have reason to feel like this it keep you alive, when real danger threaten you. It could be an animal, a warrior who came to kill you or you could be out on the open sea when the storm came when not expected. Some of the same situations are still today, and others have appeared as new situations for a newer time. But the case is the same, in real danger we react with anxiety and it helps us stay alive. The problem is when we feel anxious without real fear, and this anxiousness and worry are taking control over our life. When anxiety don´t save our life, but instead are taking away the possibility to live a ordinary life.

When we are feeling anxious and having anxiety symptoms we can feel a various of feelings in our bodies. When you’re having one of these attacks, here are some of the anxiety attack symptoms you can have:

* Chest pain,

* Difficulty breathing,

* Elevated heart rate and blood pressure,

* Surges of adrenaline,

* Unreasoning fear,

* The feeling of impending doom,

* or the feeling that you’re dying.

* An overwhelming fear that you’re “going crazy”… that you will pass
out, or that you will lose control of your actions and do something you
don’t want to do.

Feeling anxious can make life miserable. You can end up worring too much, never be ale to rest, and AGORAPHOBIA can be a result like it is for many people.