Definition
Anxiety is a feeling similar to fear, characterized by a sense of constriction or oppression, which causes considerable psychological suffering.
Unlike fear, anxiety is responsible for an alarming and panic reaction to only presumed dangers, therefore in the absence of an event that can be objectively considered a threat.
This symptom is the expression of various syndromes (obsessive states, hysteria, phobias, depression, neurasthenia and other neuroses) or transient pathological situations. States of anxiety are frequent in patients with dementia and can occur in case of organic diseases (such as asthma, respiratory failure, myocardial infarction and hyperthyroidism).
The anguish manifests itself with mental disorders (irritability, anxiety, pavor nocturnus and apprehension) and with somatic phenomena at the level of various organs (for example: it accelerates cardiac activity and causes sensations of heat and / or cold, breathlessness, copious sweating and dryness of the oral cavity).
Anxiety is a feeling of deep anxiety, apprehension and worry strongly linked to mental stress
Possible Causes * of Anguish
- Alcoholism
- Anaphylaxis
- Angina pectoris
- Anxiety
- Asthma
- Renal colic
- coronary artery disease
- Major depression
- Postpartum depression
- Dysthymia
- Bipolar disorder
- Cyclothymic disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Embolism
- Pulmonary embolism
- Heart attack
- Respiratory failure
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypochondria
- Alzheimer's disease
- Parkinson's disease
- Anger
- Schizophrenia
