When anxiety occurs, certain chemicals are turned on in your brain, and other chemicals are turned off. Anxiety causes emotional symptoms that include a feeling of being ill at ease or fearful. These symptoms may result in behaviors that include avoiding people, places or things that cause the symptoms. You may stop doing things that you normally would enjoy. Anxiety can also rob you of your confidence.
Anxiety often interferes with close relationships.
Family and friends don't experience the symptoms, so they may not understand why you experience the symptoms. They may not understand how difficult it is for you. Anxiety is the result of some stressor. Changes in the body, in thinking, in behavior, and in feelings occur. When a stressor occurs, chemicals in the brain are released in large amounts.