You’re Not The Only One If You Feel Anxiety

Posted by Finch Neilson

August 20, 2008

Anxiety

It’s true that just about everybody will commonly experience anxiety in one form or another during the course of his or her life. Just hearing the phone ring in the middle of the night or hearing about an impending snowstorm can cause a measure of anxiety or nervousness.

But when people talk about anxiety, they usually mean something much more serious than merely a bit of nervy response to some unexpected event. Full-blown disorders as well as panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder, and even Obsessive-compulsive disorder are considered forms of anxiety, and whole fields of drug are dedicated to their study. Some people experience these symptoms so severely that they’re somewhat socially crippled, unable to hold down a job, meet new people, or function outside their home at all.

According to the Central Institute of Health (NIH), “about 40 million American adults ages 18 and older, or about 18.1 percent of people in this age group in a given year, have an anxiety disorder.” They also bring out that it is not uncommon for people to suffer from more than one type of anxiety disorder - for instance, somebody experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder may also feel frequent panic attacks. Obsessional compulsive disorder can also be tied to depression, and so on.

Eighteen % of people is almost one in five, so the next time you think that you’re the only one that feels the way you do or are the only one fighting these symptoms, walk through the mall or think of a group of people you know, such as at work or your place of worship. Chances are that for every five or six people there, generally one of them has an anxiety disorder of one type or another. As said, whole fields of drug are dedicated to helping the sufferers of all of these types of anxiety disorders, and new drugs and other treatment options are being explored every single day. In fact, there are just far too many people in this world today who experience these disorders for doctors and biologists to ignore it.

So if you think that there’s something inherently wrong with you or that you’re somehow weak because you experience serious anxiety, It is time to set that thinking aside and speak to your doctor about how he or she can help you. There are ways of dealing with these symptoms and there are even treatments available to you.

Anxiety