The
escalating symptoms of anxiety affect millions of adult Americans,
up to 40 million per year. While virtually everyone experiences
anxiety during a stressful event such as starting a new job or taking
a test, adults with anxiety disorders feel excessively worried and
fearful for no apparent reason. The escalating symptoms of anxiety
can start from nothing and quickly lead to a pounding heart, heavy
chest pain, lump in the throat, weakness, and dizziness to name
a few.
Often
called a panic attack, the escalating symptoms of anxiety may be
diagnosed as a panic disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, generalized
anxiety disorder, or one of many other anxiety disorders. While
each anxiety disorder may have different symptoms, all of the escalating
symptoms of anxiety disorders are marked by an irrational dread
and fear that worsens and rapidly leads to severe physical symptoms.
The
escalating symptoms of anxiety can make a person feel as if they
are losing control. Whether the symptoms occur late at night or
in the middle of the day, the escalating symptoms of anxiety may
make you feel as if the world is coming to an end, you are having
a heart attack, or you are going to die any minute. Unfortunately,
once you experience a panic attack in this magnitude, it can easily
become a cycle, causing you to fluctuate between actual panic attacks
and the constant fear of having another panic attack.
Another
unfortunate outcome of the escalating symptoms of anxiety is that
it can progress into phobias which leave some sufferers almost totally
disabled. An example of this is agoraphobia, the fear of open spaces,
a phobia disorder that stops people from being able to leave their
home at all. Since the escalating symptoms of anxiety can lead to
such extreme disability, it is important to treat anxiety symptoms
before they are allowed to escalate to another disorder.
