Anxiety disorder has primary symptoms and these include : excessive and irrational fear and worry. To clearly identify anxiety disorder, we have to further examine the emotional as well as physical manifestations of the disorder.

Below are the emotional symptoms:

Trouble concentrating
Anticipating the worst irritability
Feeling like your mind’s gone blank
Feelings of apprehension or dread
Watching for signs of danger
Restlessness
Feeling tense and jumpy

Physical symptoms of anxiety

Anxiety disorders surpass emotional manifestations. As a result of the body’s stress response, anxiety involves a wide range of physical manifestations. Because of the numerous physical symptoms, people who suffer from this disorder, most of the time mistake their disorder for a medical illness. They may visit several doctors and make numerous trips to the hospital before their anxiety disorder is discovered.

Here are the common physical symptoms of anxiety:

Shortness of breath
Stomach upset or dizziness
Muscle tension
Pounding heart
Fatigue
Frequent urination or diarrhea
Headaches
Sweating
Insomnia
Tremors and twitches

When anxiety gets out of control – Panic attacks. What are their symptoms?
In mental health circles, anxiety attacks, is otherwise known as panic attacks, ¬are episodes of intense panic or fear. Anxiety attacks usually occur in a short period of time and without warning. Sometimes there’s an apparent trigger – getting stuck in an elevator, for example, or thinking about the big speech you are about to give in a few hours – but in other cases, the attacks come out of no where.

These anxiety attacks usually reaches its severity in a matter of ten minutes, and they rarely last more than thirty minutes. But during that short span of time, the terror can be way too much that you feel as if you’re about to die or totally lose control. The physical symptoms are themselves so frightening that many people believe they’re having a heart attack. After an anxiety attack is over, you may be worried about having another one, particularly in a public place where help isn’t available or you can’t easily get away with it. For self help, the first thing you need to do is to know of the symptoms of your panic attacks, if you do, you will be aware that you will be about to experience it and prevent it from getting worse through self relaxation techniques.

Talking about anxiety or panic attacks, here are the symptoms:

Heart palpitations or chest pain
Nausea or stomach cramps
Hyperventilation
Trouble breathing or choking sensation
Surge of overwhelming panic
Trembling or shaking
Feeling of losing control or going crazy
Feeling detached or unreal
Feeling like you’re going to pass out
Hot flashes or chills