Signs and Symptoms Of Anxious Behavior

The term anxiety is used to describe an unpleasant, emotional state of mind. It arises from a feeling of threat or fear originating from imaginary danger. Anxiety is an unintentional feeling of nervousness along with restlessness.

Signs of Anxiety

The feeling of anxiety is experienced, normally, by every individual at some point of their lives. It maybe the rising heartbeats before going up on stage to perform or the final examinations; the butterflies in the stomach when meeting someone special.

The shiver up the sleeve on returning home late during school or college days, or even the frantic breathlessness to face the authorities after a mistake.

These undesired feelings are not preferred by anyone. They are an unintentional bent of emotions which have no real cause. Such a situation often tends to become a hindrance to normal life and create physical weaknesses too, like headaches, nausea, vertigo and the like.

Physical Manifestations of Anxiety

§ People who suffer from social anxiety avoid meeting new people.

§ They do not like too much attention or focus on them.

§ They are not comfortable in public speaking.

§ Such individuals resent stage performances.

§ They elude themselves from socializing.

Symptoms of Anxious Behavior

• Most people get tensed when initiating anything new or meeting some unknown person or even when facing certain unwanted situations.
• Unlike other individuals without anxiety disorders, these persons’ fears never seem to subside. They themselves create issues one after another that will be a source of humiliation, rejection or even embarrassment by others.

Anxiety symptoms are categorized under two distinctive heads, namely

ü Psychological symptoms

ü Physical symptoms

Psychological Symptoms

v To worry intensely for many days preceding the particular event or situation that the individual will have to face later.

v Tremendous fear about unknown persons’ comments or judgments

v Excessive sense of self consciousness, i.e., the “I-factor”, prevails in such individuals.

v Lack of self confidence and a feeling of inferiority kills the person from within.

v Fear of showing one’s nervousness is another indication of anxiety.

v Avoiding social gatherings and events to the extent of destroying or interrupting one’s own life and activities.

Physical Symptoms

v The physical are usually very pronounced in cases of social anxiety. Breathlessness is one of the first symptoms visible in an anxious person.

v Tremendous heartbeats and tight chests.

v The voice tends to become broken or shaky.

v Some people keep shaking their legs even while sitting.

v Shivering is evidenced in some persons suffering from anxiety.

v The nerves refuse to function correctly. The result is that people are seen blinking frequently, biting nails, blushing, sweating or even clutching both hands together without uttering a word.

v Dyspepsia and nausea, too, are frequent.

v The muscles become tense and people keep standing in one place without any movement or shifts.

v Sometimes, as is seen in children mostly, they lose their consciousness in an examination hall or on the sports ground merely because of the tension of losing.

v Often, a person may also be bed ridden or suffer from fever due to excessive anxiousness.

If handled and treated with patience and determination, such anxiety problems can be eradicated.