Presented by Jimmy Oakley ANXIETY AND NERVOUS BREAKDOWN Basics Anxiety is a condition or state in which a human simultaneously experiences multiple emotions of terror, agony and worry. Physically, it is characterized by an increased heartbeat rate, breathlessness, headaches and throbbing pain in the chest region. Anxiety has four different parts or components including behavioral, emotional, cognitive and somatic. Description A trademark behavioral aspect of anxiety is that a person suffering from it, willingly or unwillingly looks to evade its causes or sources. Emotionally, anxieties lead to immense fear and subsequently panic attacks, which occur in situations of extreme anxiety. The cognitive mechanism creates anticipation in humans, similar to animals, of a remote and vague peril. In the somatic sense the human body automatically readies itself (emergency reaction) to face the danger by increasing the heartbeat rate, blood pressure, sweating and flow of blood to muscles. Also the digestive system and immune system undergo restricted functionality. Visible symptoms of such somatic activity are dilation of pupils, cold shivers and paling of skin. The Fight/Flight Response
Anxiety is the human body’s natural defense mechanism against perceived threat or risk. The scientific term used to describe anxiety is the fight/flight response and is called so as anxiety is always oriented towards either fighting or fleeing the threat. Nervous Breakdown Nervous breakdown was called melancholia till the beginning of the 20th century when its name was altered to neurasthenia. The term nervous breakdown was used for the first time around 1930 and is still in usage. Generally, it is indicative of a wide range of mental sickness but more specifically it means ‘breaking’, ‘snapping’ or ‘losing hope’ in high mental pressure/stress scenarios. "Nervous breakdown" is not officially a clinical term and doesn’t have anything to do with nerves. The closest clinical term to the colloquially called nervous breakdown, is ‘major depression’. Depression is caused by biological and genetic factors but can be triggered by environmental and social state of affairs. Specific examples of triggers are problems in relationships, death of someone close, deception by others, monetary and ego troubles. People having a nervous breakdown lose interest in most activities including daily hygiene care. They always feel tired, energy less, and low without doing absolutely any physical work. Visit The Health Serve USA Anxiety Specialty Boutique for your anxiety shopping needs. Other ebooks on stress and anxiety can be found in the bookstore on the health portal, http://healthserveusa.com. Jimmy Oakley is the publisher of http://maybrockpublishing.com, his brand new digital ebook publishing company and is also an accomplished arthor and writer. His newest ebook release is titled "Addiction Education, You have Questions, I Have Answers!" and it is his best yet. It is a comprehensive addictions authority guide and addiciton information resource that is sweeping the addiction community in it's new found popularity. Jimmy invites you to visit the books main website at http://addictioneducation.net . To find other selections Jimmy has published, visit http://healthserveusa.com and check out the Book Store. Some of Jimmy's other books include The Body Detox Method, Fitting Esercise into Your Busy Schedule, How to Reduce Stress in Your Life, Banish Bad Habits, Vibrant Health & Wellness Audio Program, Eliminating Stress and Anxiety from Your Life, How to Boost Your Metablolism plus other excellent resources for you to take advantage of. |
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