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Anxiety Disorder Effects: Physical and  Psychological
July 25, 2008

Anxiety effects on the body include high blood pressure, and sometimes at least one other anxiety physical symptom.

• Physical Effect
• Psychological Effect

Physical Effect of Anxiety Disorders

• Nervous Effect- When you feel some sort of danger, the brain sends messages to autonomic nervous system that has two-sub sections; sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system is also called 'fight / flight' system. The system releases energy and prepares the body for action. Parasympathetic nervous system is restoring system, which brought the body to the normal.
• Cardiovascular Effect of Anxiety- The action in sympathetic nervous system results in increased heart beat rate, high blood pressure and heavy delivery of oxygen to the tissues and removal of waste product from the tissues. The blood flows to the larger muscles such as muscles of thighs and biceps. This prepare the body for action.
• Respiratory Effects of Anxiety- Since the fight /response is linked with increased and deep breathing; the tissues require more oxygen to ready for action. The individual feel breathlessness, choking or smothering feelings, and pain or tightness in the chest. The symptoms also include giddiness, blurred vision, confusion, unreality and hot flushes. However, these effects are not dangerous at all.
• Sweat Gland Effects of Anxiety- The fight / flight response results in increased sweating. Heavy sweating makes the organism skin slippery so that it becomes hard to grip and cooling the body.
• Other Physical Effects of Anxiety- Anxiety leads to decrease in salivation and hence dry mouth. Digestive system do not function properly which results in nausea, heavy stomach and constipation. Some anxiety is also accompanies with trembling and shaking etc.

Psychological Effects

• Behavioral System- The fight / flight response system prepares the body to either wrestle or escape, but when an individual can not do the same because of any reason, the urges are often shown as tension, guilty, shivering, improper speaking, foot tapping, pacing or snapping at people. Overall, a person develops the feelings of being trapped and need to escape.
• Mental System- The one principal effect of Anxiety Disorders on mental system is immediate and automatic attention of the individual to search the vicinity. When a person clutched with anxiety attacks, he / she become unable to perform / concentrate on regular tasks, even which do not require much attention.

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