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Anxiety In Chronic Form

By Zinn Jeremiah


Do you suffer from anxiety or panic attacks? Glenda did, too. Read about
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Being anxious is not in itself a bad thing. In fact, all people at some point or other feel anxiety, and the anxiety a person feels can have beneficial effects. Anxiety improves ones mental and physical readiness as a means of coping with some form of problem. In the most dramatic possible scenario, enhanced mental and physical focus from anxiety would enable someone to try and escape physical danger. Anxiety then can be an asset.

Where anxiety becomes problematic is when it becomes chronic, or the anxious response is an overreaction to the circumstances. The chronically anxious condition can be characterized as a person being almost incessantly on edge, expecting the worst and constantly prepared for flight. The damage this sort of chronic state can cause can be quite extreme. The person who is chronically anxious is placing a heavy physical strain on themselves, essentially putting their bodies on constant high alert for a flight response. When the body is put under these sorts of physical demands, the body fatigues and wears out. As blood pressure rises under an anxious state, chronic anxiety can also lead to the problems elevated blood pressure causes: stroke, coronary problems, compromised kidney function, and other physical problems besides.

An anxious overresponse can be disabling as well. The person who feels anxiety when theres no real threat at hand is overreacting to lifes circumstances. People who tend to react in this way are prone to withdrawing as a way of averting their upset, or self-medicating themselves through alcohol and drugs, or both. Withdrawal often, if not always, leads to mood problems such as depression, and even anger and hostility. The use of alcohol and drugs in a coping pattern is, obviously, an open door to addiction.

Chronic anxiety is a serious state, and can lead to further emotional and physical disorder. Any chronic dysfunction is unlikely to just go away on its own: something being chronic in nature indicates fixed patterns have set in. So being chronically anxious is always a call for treatment intervention. The positive news is that the anxious condition typically responds well to treatment, and the person who gets effective treatment for an anxiety problem can improve considerably.


About the Author:

Zinn Jeremiah is an online author. To get help with anxiety, visit anxiety help or social anxiety treatment.




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