Anxiety: What is Anxiety?

it is an emotional state, pleasant or unpleasant, associated with a condition of alertness and fear towards everything outside; generally it is an "exaggerated" reaction with respect to the real situation. This emotional state involves not only the individual subject, but also the people around him.

, apprehension, insomnia, apnea, ease of crying, palpitations, weakness and stomach cramps.

which arise without a real justification due to incomprehensible and non-affective reasons, are at the origin of excessive reactions characterizing pathological or negative anxiety.

In most cases, "pathological anxiety is accompanied by" panic attacks ", acute crises characterized by fear, palpitations and disordered and afinalistic behaviors. The so-called" phobias "are, on the other hand, attitudes of real but not objective fear for contextual situations. , or animals or objects.

comprehends:

1. Pharmacological treatments for overt pathologies, when anxiety is due to an organic disease.
2. In the case of "situational anxiety", it is necessary for the individual to overcome that difficult moment by himself, and eventually he can use hypnotic-sedative drugs for short periods.
3. In the case of "chronic anxiety", long-term drug therapy with hypnotic-sedative drugs is used, possibly associated with psycho-therapy.

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