The term anxiety comes from the Latin “anxietas” meaning distress or affliction. Then the anxiety is an emotional state where the body gets “defensive” when you feel Amez, overwhelmed and afraid.
The psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud proposed three types of anxiety:
- Anxiety of reality: This is where you experience fear. An example is when a person is in front of one of his phobias.
- Anxiety moral: It referred to a feeling of guilt, fear of punishment and shame. Experience when you’ve done something wrong and feels fear of what that society can claim.
- Neurotic anxiety: It’s kind of a type of nervous anxiety where you feel you are going to lose control or else the mind.
Anxiety can have the following symptoms: impatience and restlessness, irritability, worry, insecurity, fear, difficulty concentrating, sleep disturbances, negative thoughts, difficulty making decisions and among some physiological symptoms are headache, muscle tension, tachycardia, dizziness, gastrointestinal problems, dry mouth, abdominal pain …
Symptoms of anxiety may result from some kind of disorder as:
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Panic Disorder
- Social anxiety disorder
- Specific Phobias
- Anxiety Disorder Due to a medical illness
- PTSD
People who suffer from anxiety also suffer from stress, depression or some phobias that haunt their lives. If you feel like experiencing some symptoms of anxiety is necessary to go with a specialist (psychiatrist, therapist, psychologist) in order to channel that emotional state based on either clinical or natural medication.