Women and Anxiety - The Effects of Anxiety and Diagnosis

Anxiety is a psychological and physiological state triggered by feelings of fear, worry, uneasiness and dread, etc. It is a normal reaction to a stress that allows a person to cope with the situation during emotionally difficult time. But when when anxiety symptoms escalate or become excessive, it can lead to anxiety disorder.
Women and anxiety
Statistic shows that women experience more episodes of anxiety overall than men, especially a few days in the beginning of the menstrual cycle.

The effects of anxiety
1. Physical effects
When a person under thread, blood pressure and heart rate are increased, sweating is increased to stimulate the blood flow to the major muscle groups to exhibit a fight or escaped reponse, leading to pale skin, sweating, trembling, and pupillary dilation. In women with anxiety, because of constant under thread without reasons,it can lead to symptoms of muscle weakness, tension, fatigue, nausea, stomach aches, or headaches.

2. Emotional effects
Emotional, women with anxiety disorder are trapped in a bad mind feeling, and feeling like everything is scary, leading to symptoms of nightmare, trouble concentrating, feeling tense or jumpy, anticipating the worst, irritability, restlessness,etc.

3. Cognitive affects
People who has preoccupied by processing of information in their mind such as such as fear of dying. When there is chest pain, the person may think about unrelated heart diseases, such as heart diseases and fear of dying for no reason at all.

4. Behavior affects
An past experience may cause a person to withdraw under normal circumstance when there is a unpleasant feeling, leading to nail biting and increased motor tension, such as foot tapping, etc.

Diagnosis and tests
After recording the medical history and physical and emotional exam. If anxiety is suspected, you may be recommended to take some tests and referred to A psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, or other mental-health professional for find out the cause of anxiety with specially designed interview and assessment tools to determine the specific cause of the diseases. For example, the specialist may diagnose panic disorder instead of anxiety if the anxiety is focused on excessive worrying about having a panic attack or separation anxiety disorder if there is an excessive worry about being away from home, etc.

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