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Introduction<\/a><\/li>
What Causes Anxiety?<\/a><\/li>
Symptoms of Anxiety<\/a><\/li>
Home Remedies for Anxiety<\/a><\/li>
When to Seek Medical Help?<\/a><\/li>
Conclusion<\/a><\/li>
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)<\/a><\/li>
References<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n \n <\/span>\n $\"Join$ \n <\/a>\n
<\/span>Introduction<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nAnxiety is often described as the feeling of constant worry that prevents an individual from relaxing. From the point of view of evolution, anxiety is a normal emotion as it has helped humans avoid dangerous situations and eventually adapt, evolve and survive. A thin line exists between this anxiety at the level of just adaptation and distressful morbid anxiety, which requires clinical judgement to diagnose ^{1<\/sup><\/a>^,<\/sup>}^{2<\/sup><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n}
The level at which a person experiences anxiety can range from just a fleeting anxiety as one feels before any surgery, to a constant feeling of nervousness that defines an anxiety disorder ^{1<\/sup><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n}
A person is said to have anxiety disorder when the constant feeling of worry just doesn\u2019t go away. Instead, it gets worse as time passes and interferes with routine life.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anxiety disorders can be of many types, particularly panic disorders, generalized anxiety disorders and phobias ^{3<\/sup><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n}
<\/span>What Causes Anxiety?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The exact cause of anxiety is not known. But there are many reasons:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Heredity<\/strong>: Anxiety disorders do have a genetic origin.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Environmental distress<\/strong>: Facing stressful life events can cause an individual to be more prone to develop anxiety disorders.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Stress during pregnancy<\/strong>: Taking lot of stress during pregnancy can have long term effects on the child. The exact process how anxiety develops involves physiological, environmental and emotional factors and the intricate interactions between them is not yet known though^{3<\/sup><\/a>^,<\/sup>}^{4<\/sup><\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nAnxiety can be of various types:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n}
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Panic disorder<\/strong>: Individuals suffering from this type of anxiety disorder develop panic attacks. These panic attacks are repetitive episodes of extreme fear and panic, in the absence of danger, which develop suddenly and last for periods of several minutes.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD<\/strong>): Those who suffer from GAD experience anxiety about common problems like family concerns, workplace problems and health and financial issues. However, their anxiety is beyond proportion. A person experiencing excess anxiety almost every day for a minimum duration of six months is said to have GAD.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Phobia<\/strong>: Phobia means having extreme dread or fear of something which can cause either minimal or no harm at all. For example: Fear of being in social events or fear of flying^{3<\/sup><\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>}
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