| Anxiety can be defined as emotions which are | | | | anxiety disorder. In extreme cases, people with |
| typically negative in nature. It will often consist of | | | | anxiety disorders may have strong cases where they |
| fear and worry, and some organisms may even | | | | are terrorized. Anxiety disorders are broken down |
| experience physical signs such as nausea or chest | | | | into phobias, panic disorders, generalized anxiety |
| pains. Anxiety is a complex emotion, and is composed | | | | disorders, and obsessive compulsive disorders. |
| of a number of different elments. Some of these | | | | Someone who is suffering from a phobia will have an |
| elements are somatic or cognitive, and the body will | | | | abnormal amount of fear of a specific object or |
| prepare itself to deal with an external threat. The | | | | situation. People who have phobias tend to have |
| heart rate speeds up, and the blood pressure is | | | | extensive imaginations, and realize that their fear is |
| increased. The various muscles in the body will also | | | | often irrational. |
| receive elevated levels of blood. At the same time, | | | | When a person suffers from a panic disorder, they |
| the functions of the digestive system will slow down. | | | | will have extreme panic attacks, and may have |
| People who have anxiety will generally have a sense | | | | dizziness or breathing problems. These attacks will |
| of dread. A number of voluntary and involuntary | | | | typically reach their height in about 10 minutes. |
| processes will take place in the body, and the goal of | | | | Generalized anxiety disorders are common, and |
| these processes is to get the organism away from | | | | effect a much larger portion of the population. It is |
| the source that is causing it to have anxiety. Anxiety | | | | prevalent in both men and woman, and is |
| is an important emotion, and is designed to increase | | | | characterized by long periods of anxiety that are not |
| the survival rate of organisms. In humans it appears | | | | related to any specific object or situation. With the |
| that anxiety comes from the hippocampus and | | | | obsessive compulsive disorder, the individual with |
| amygdala, two regions of the brain. When a person | | | | have an obsession or compulsion when it comes to |
| senses bad odors or tastes, there will be a large | | | | specific types of behavior. People who suffer from |
| amount of blood flow which will be present in the | | | | this disorder will see the need to do something |
| amygdala. The evidence also shows that medium | | | | obsessively in order to reduce their anxiety. |
| levels of anxiety will be present in this situation as | | | | Many people who have this disorder need to be |
| well. | | | | extremely clean, and are afraid of germs. To reduce |
| Based on these studies, it appears that anxiety is | | | | their anxiety, they will wash their hands numerous |
| designed to keep humans and other organisms from | | | | times in a single day. There are two primary methods |
| eating food or objects that may be harmful to their | | | | that are used to help those who are suffering from |
| well being. While anxiety is normal, a person that has | | | | anxiety, and this is either therapy or prescription |
| excessive amounts of it may have what is called an | | | | medicaitons. |