Symptoms and Reactions to Chronic Anxiety Disorder

Anxiety is not restricted to those with a so called chronic anxiety disorder. Everyone carries a certain anxiety level with them in day tochronic anxiety disorder day life. It is a natural thing and helps to even protect us against certain unwanted situations. The fight or flight response comes to mind.

However if you suffer from a chronic anxiety disorder, this means your level of anxiety is not only very high, but constant. The fight or flight response to a real threat is helpful. Extreme levels of adrenaline are produced and that subsides when the threat no longer exists.

A chronic anxiety disorder however means that your adrenaline and other chemicals produced internally are almost always heightened. It may be that there is most likely no real threat, just perceived threats which put your feelings out of whack and interrupt your daily activities. You may have found that during even the most simplest of activities, you still feel a high level of stress and you can’t figure out why.

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Chronic Anxiety Disorder Symptoms Include:

  • The constant feeling that things around you are not right and you can’t figure out why. It can often become overwhelming. These sensations are constant, whether you are in a particular environment, such as at work, where you may expect a higher stress level or just at home watching television.Your mind wonders about racing about everything in your life, personal and professional. Just thinking about the simple errands you have to do the next day sends you into a high anxiety state.
  • Unlike a natural rise in anxiety brought on by a specific event, chronic anxiety disorder sufferers will usually experience their anxiety spike all of a sudden, though it can build up slowly as well.Even if you notice that your stress anxiety level shoots up during a traumatic event, chronic anxiety disorder sufferers will still have these sensations when there is no trauma at the time.
  • The physical symptoms will be very noticeable. Nervous sweating, heart palpitations or a racing heart. In extreme situations you may even experience nausea and light headedness.
  • A by-product of chronic anxiety disorder is insomnia. Are you having difficulty falling to sleep? Or you can get to sleep okay but can’t stay asleep, waking often throughout the night or tossing and turning. These are all a result of your subconscious at work still playing out all the anxious thoughts resulting from the carryover of your day.

I have been referring to the phrase “a”chronic anxiety disorder.  In my research I have learned there are many anxiety conditions and you may have, unknowingly, developed one or more of them.

For example, if you begin to consciously stay away from certain environments or situations where you have experienced your anxiety attacks, you may be adding social anxiety to the issue.

Everyone is different in their anxiety experiences. These are but a few symptoms of chronic anxiety disorder. You may have some of the above and other different triggers. How dramatic your episodes are will also vary from other sufferers. You may have found a way to cope better than others or you may be at the point of having full blown panic attacks.

One very common thread however between almost all severe anxiety sufferers is the feeling that you are having a heart attack. Also, research shows that women may be more likely to suffer from a chronic anxiety disorder than men and for this, I am not sure why.

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To your wellness,

Michael Gerrard
chronic anxiety disorder

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