What Causes Anxiety
The definition of anxiety is that of a nervous disorder that creates false fears and phobias upon the people who are subject to these emotions. The basic worries that tend to plague people with anxiety disorder are for the most part illogical. Unlike recognized threats such as the fear of falling from a high place or fear of drowning if you can not swim are natural extensions of the survival instinct.
Nervous anxieties on the other hand tend to be caused primarily from one's upbringing and lack of self worth. A child that has been raised among negative reinforcements will have a more difficult time meeting the challenges of life in a positive manner. Fear of embarrassment or failure can become so strong as to create the situations that will "confirm" the fear. People with such low self-esteem will often have difficulties in relationships.
The body's nervous response to these situations is part of the emergency response "fight or flight" mechanism. The heart rate and blood pressure will increase and cause sweating or nervous shaking. Occasionally nausea will develop along with headaches.
Anxiety over known and real dangers is a normal occurrence. It is when the fear overpowers a person's ability to function that it becomes a severe handicap. Phobias can be caused by the most illogical reasons. Sometimes these reasons can be found and diminished through psychological analysis, especially if they are founded in traumatic events from the past. This same treatment can help those who are subject to intense illogical fears from performance anxiety as well.
Being a neurological disorder, anxiety attacks do not have any comprehensive physical treatments but must be worked upon through the psychological means of analysis. Physically, treatments to calm the sufferer down will provide temporary relief from the more debilitating effects of over riding fears.
