Identifying Signs of Anxiety From 6 Simple Questions

Every body knows how it anxiety feels like; your heart starts to pound faster than it normally does during a class performance, a competition or college exam or during a corporate presentation. You get excited but at the same time feel nervous during valentine date. You feel concerned and worry about family conflicts or you may feel edgy and disoriented at your hopes for asking a pay raise from your boss.

These experiences are pretty much normal and they happen most of the time, what is not normal is when these are starting to interfere with your daily routines, when these become signs of a disorder, when these become signs of anxiety.

Indeed, it is but normal to feel scared, tense, or worried when facing a situation that demands emotional and mental response. Anxiety is actually the body?s way of responding to threat; we shake, tremble, and feel unsettled when we face danger.

Anxiety actually is good; it makes us more focused and alert to solve a crisis and motivate us to act accordingly. The bad signs of anxiety are evident when it affects our relationships, activities, and sanity.

To help you check whether you are showing signs of anxiety or not, it is best that you ask yourself these questions.

First, ask yourself if you feel worried, tense or edgy most of the time. Second, check if your worrying directly affects your family duties, school, and work responsibilities. Third, are you afraid of someone or something from occurring without any logical basis?

Fourth, do you start to feel uneasy about things and that the worst would happen if you or the people around will not do a specific activity?

Fifth, do you start to avoid doing routines because they make you feel uneasy? Sixth, does your heart suddenly beat faster or do you often feel panicky?

And the final question to ask if you are showing signs of anxiety is -- do you often think that catastrophe or danger is just lurking around you?

If your answer to most of these questions is yes, then definitely you are positive of the signs of anxiety. But this does not end here.

Anxiety disorders are actually a group of anxiety related conditions. The symptoms vary from patient to patient, that is specialists should make further examination in order to determine the type of disorder.

A specialist in mental disorders will help you best in treating your condition. He can tell you accurately through the signs of anxiety you display if you are suffering from generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, phobia, posttraumatic stress disorder, or social anxiety disorder.

Do not allow matters to worsen. Do not take the signs of anxiety lightly, seek professional help now.

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