Anxiety Disorder Symptom Is Affecting A Fifth Of US Population

About one fifth of the US population seems to have mental problems, particularly  anxiety disorders. American  people have to deal with being depressed, feeling anxious as well as having panic attacks and even being traumatized; all of which are common anxiety disorder symptoms. This excessive fear and worry starts to hamper someones ability to function normally, and it is mostly a characteristic of an anxiety disorder that is forcing a good number of people to seek treatment for this distressing disease.

Panic Attack

The most commonly noticed anxiety disorder symptom is that of a panic attack in which the affected person starts to feel an intense amount of fear and is unable to face life on his or her own. Panic attacks generally develop over a shorter period of time and will usually do their damage within fifteen minutes.

Fear, worry as well as anxiety is all part and parcel of everyday life and as such not something to be unduly worried about. The fact is, that professionals that handle mental health are not worried about limited amount of such worries, fears and anxieties. However, when anxiety disorder symptoms start to show up, these professionals have little option but to sit up and take notice, especially as these symptoms will last for as long as six months.

There are certain physical anxiety disorder symptoms that are noticed. These are caused when someones brain starts to send messages to various parts of the body, instructing those parts to prepare for impending doom. This in turn means that the patients heart, lungs and other body parts will start to work at a faster rate. The brain than releases certain stress hormones like adrenaline which helps developing the physical anxiety disorder symptoms.

The physical anxiety disorder symptoms include discomfort in the abdomen, experiencing diarrhea, dryness in the mouth, rapid heartbeats as well as tightness in the chest area and some pain. In addition, the physical anxiety disorder symptoms also include shortness of breath, urinating frequently, feeling dizzy and having difficulties in swallowing.

The mental anxiety disorder symptoms include becoming an insomniac, feeling very irritable, not being able to concentrate and experiencing fear of impending death or becoming crazy as well as feeling quite unreal.

Panic anxiety disorders are also quite common and recently appear to have affected some celebrities. Maybe an excessive consumption of alcohol or even drug abuse is the reason. Anyway, these persons suffer significantly and have to live a life of dread as well as senseless fears.