What are the symptoms of anxiety disorder

Nowadays, more and more people suffer from anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorder is a mental illness, which is mainly caused by excessive mental stress. If you are under a lot of pressure in your daily life or work and cannot relieve it, you are likely to suffer from anxiety disorder. Patients with anxiety disorders often feel irritable, and in severe cases may develop other mental illnesses. So, what are the symptoms of anxiety disorder?

Causes

The cause of the disease is still unclear, and it may be related to genetic factors, personality traits, cognitive processes, adverse life events, biochemistry, and physical diseases.

Clinical manifestations

1. Chronic anxiety (generalized anxiety disorder)

(1) Emotional symptoms: In the absence of obvious triggers, patients often experience excessive worry, tension and fear that are inconsistent with the actual situation. This tension and fear often has no clear object or content. The patient feels that he is always in a state of nervousness, anxiety, fear, fear and anxiety.

(2) Autonomic nervous system symptoms include dizziness, chest tightness, palpitations, shortness of breath, dry mouth, frequent urination, urgency, sweating, tremors, and other physical symptoms.

(3) Motor restlessness: Feeling restless, unable to sit or lie down, irritable, and having difficulty calming down.

2. Acute anxiety (panic attack)

(1) Feeling of impending death or loss of control. In normal daily life, patients are almost the same as normal people. Once an attack occurs (some have specific triggering situations, such as closed spaces, etc.), the patient suddenly experiences extreme fear and a sense of impending death or loss of control.

(2) Symptoms of the autonomic nervous system appear simultaneously, such as chest tightness, palpitations, difficulty breathing, sweating, and trembling all over the body.

(3) The onset of the attack is sudden and the patient is conscious, usually lasting from a few minutes to a few hours.

(4) It is very easy to misdiagnose. When an attack occurs, patients often call the "120" emergency number and go to the emergency room of the cardiology department. Although patients appear to have severe symptoms, most relevant test results are normal, so the diagnosis is often unclear. After the attack, patients are still extremely frightened and worried about their own condition. They often go to various departments of major hospitals and undergo various examinations, but no diagnosis can be made. It not only delays treatment but also causes a waste of medical resources.