Stress and Anxiety

Stress and Anxiety can sometimes be unhealthy.

Stress is the phrase we use to describe the arousal of the autonomic nervous system.

It’s what motivates us to get things done, to rise to a challenge or to get out of the way of a car driving fast towards us.

These days most of us behave as if we’re continually reacting to emergency situations. This puts all sorts of strains on the body. The body is designed to cope with short bursts of activity to deal effectively with physical threat but not the prolonged stress we put it through.

Occasional and mild anxiety is natural and useful, but for 10% of people in the UK it can interfere with normal life. Between 2 and 3% of people in the USA experience a panic disorder at some point in their lives and something like 25 million Americans have had occasional and mild anxiety attacks.

On these pages you will learn how common anxiety attacks are and how, understanding more about the components of an anxiety attack can help you find your own way of controlling them.

You will also find out about anxiety symptoms and if it’s stress you’re suffering from or something a little more serious, such as anxiety depression symptom, or social anxiety disorder or generalized anxiety disorder , which can include social phobia.

People who have suffered panic attacks tend to be vulnerable to developing phobias when the unconscious mind associates the environmental circumstances with the uncomfortable feeling being experienced. You can see more information here about anxiety attacks and panic attacks anxiety attacks and panic attacks and how to cope.

Anxiety attacks and why we need them.

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