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Anxiety can be a debilitating psychological state to be in. A person experiencing anxiety might feel muscle weakness, heart palpitations, tension and fatigue. Other common symptoms can be nausea, chest pain, shortness of breath stomach aches and headaches.

What is the reason for the development of these symptoms? What causes this reaction? Anxiety is associated with worry about the future. As one person described it, anxiety is a “future-oriented mood state in which one is ready or prepared to attempt to cope with upcoming negative events.” The way anxiety is differentiated from fear is that anxiety focuses more on the future, and fear is focused on the present. In most cases it is normal to feel anxiety. Anxiety is the normal, physical reaction to stress. But when the reaction becomes an overreaction, and becomes debilitating, then a person can be said to be suffering from an anxiety disorder.

There is more to anxiety than the physical reactions. The emotions can become involved as well. People that are experiencing anxiety describe themselves as feeling dread, tension, jumpiness, mind going blank and other uncomfortable, fear-based emotions. Sometimes a person experiencing anxiety overreacts to a real pain, such as a headache believing that this could be a sign of a tumor, stroke or aneurism, and can’t stop thinking about it. Anxiety can cause a person to obsess on a negative thought and not be able to get it out of their mind.