### condition:

Anxiety
* Anxieties can present in different ways
  - vary in intensity from vague discomfort to acute panic
* Most anxiety affects minds
  - is experienced by mothers
* Some anxiety actually stimulates the adrenal gland to produce an extra burst of positive energy
  - is normal and can increase motivation and alertness
* actually consumes the individual.
* affects everyone, especially when there is excessive mental or emotional stress
  - millions of people, and many have been helped by anti-anxiety drugs
* alone can bring on diarrhea
  - delay the onset of labor
* also can cause fatigue
  - causes emotional symptoms that include a feeling of being ill at ease or fearful
  - exacerbates the experience of pain
  - plays a role in teenage use of nicotine
  - stops the brain from blocking the feeling of pain
* appears in dreams under various themes
  - many forms
* arises from many causes and appears in many different forms.
* associated with depression is responsive to alprazolam.
* associates with illnesses.
* becomes a negative experience when it interferes with our ability to carry out daily tasks
  - abnormal when it becomes excessive, irrational, and chronic
  - disabling when people are unexplainably and uncontrollably tense
* big culprit in sleeplessness.
* can affect memory at any age
  - aggravate a speech disability
* can also be one of the common symptom psychiatric disorders
  - secondary to a medical condition
  - the cause, as can simply getting older
* can also cause fatigue
  - high blood pressure, another risk factor for heart disease and strokes
  - give rise to panic attacks
  - have a negative impact on work
  - be a state that lingers for most of the time or occur just some of the time
* can be a symptom in other disorders, or anxiety can be the disorder
  - of an underlying concern, worry, or fear
  - the cause of illness, or anxiety can be an effect of illness
  - become a pattern of response to social situations because of a self-reinforcing cycle
  - block the ability to recall what has been recently learned
* can cause both physical and emotional symptoms
  - carelessness
  - overbreathing which lowers blood pressure
  - people to linger beneath the bedclothes after they wake up
  - prolonged labor and inefficient uterine contractions
  - restlessness and agitation at night
* can come from the reactions that persons who stutter experiences every time they stutter
  - uncertainty regarding interactions, physical danger, or new situations
  - create an entire host of physical symptoms
  - effect both the mind and the body
* can even afflict the young and elderly
  - cause a child to develop a stomach-ache or to feel sick
  - exacerbate an asthma attack
  - have different triggers for different people
* can increase the risk of medical emergencies occurring during appointments
  - severity of the reaction
  - lead to poorer recovery
  - make people act in ways they know to be irrational
  - manifest as uncooperative behavior
  - occur in both manic or depressed episodes
  - often delay the ovulation cycle and further complicate treatment
* can play a huge role with inhibiting the orgasmic process
  - part in wind
  - predispose to depression
  - raise the heart rate
  - range from very low to pathologically high
  - result in diarrhea, and depression often brings on constipation
  - strain relationships with family and friends
* causes activation of the autonomic nervous system
  - adrenal hormone output to increase
  - clinging and a search for human comfort
  - depression, which is why sometimes it can be treated with tranquilizing agents
  - significant distress or impairment in functioning
  - sleep loss
* comes from a concern over lack of control over circumstances
  - root word signifying lack of breathing space, suffocation
* common emotion
  - human experience
  - problem that can effect people of all ages
  - problem, but so is asthma
  - side effect of interferon therapy
* commonly increases as hunting season draws closer.
* condition of agitation and distress.
* danger or an alert signal.
* decreases the threshold for pain and pain causes anxiety
  - with an awareness of one's surroundings
* differs from fear in that the former has no object, but the latter does.
* direct or indirect side effect of some medications.
* disorders the most common of childhood disorders.
* encompasses many different types of emotional difficulties.
* feeling most people recognize.
* form of fear.
* future oriented emotion.
* general feeling of being worried.
* generally occurs as an occasional temporary reaction to the stresses of everyday life.
* has both physical and psychological components
  - brain cells left
  - effects
  - it's roots in biology
  - many symptoms
  - physiological, behavioral, and psychological effects
  - prominent affects on the heart
  - tendencies
  - three major components
* increases the body's oxygen demand and heightens the perception of pain.
* involves a state of tension or fear that occurs without clear cause
  - cognitive and somatic components
  - responses
* is about the future, and it invokes the past
  - all about one's reaction to stress
  - also a defence against aggressive impulses
  - always combined with a sense of vulnerability
* is among the most common, most treatable mental disorders
  - frequently cited contributors to psychological impotence
* is an adaptive mechanism
  - emotion that can signal just the right response to a situation
  - extremely unpleasant, self-perpetuating state, which guarantees unhappiness
  - interplay between physiological arousal and cognitive thinking
  - involuntary, or reflex reaction of the body
* is an unpleasant emotional and physical state of apprehension
  - state ranging from mild unease to intense fear
  - unpleasurable affect with both physiological and psychological symptoms
  - another patient-related variable that can influence pain
  - apprehension cued off by a threat to some value which the person holds essential
  - associated with the excitement accompanying the birth of a new idea
  - being show to play a significant role in a wide variety of conditions and disease states
  - believed to hinder academic success while optimism predicts success
  - caused by fear
  - characteristically a disorder of young adults, and affects twice as many women as men
  - characterized by excessive worry about unrealistic or exaggerated life circumstances
  - common throughout the lifespan
* is created by expectations or thoughts about what is likely to happen
  - from the unknown
* is energy that has no place to go
  - without a goal
  - evoked by suspicion of nonreciprocation
* is fear of the future or worry
  - without a realistic threat
  - fearful anticipation of coming danger, when there is nothing to trigger the fear
  - fearfulness or uneasiness that arise from the anticipation of danger
  - felt particularly in the chest area overlying the heart
  - focused on the future
  - important to creativity, intelligence, and to survival itself
  - mental illnesses
  - much more prevalent in older folks than depression
  - normal to life and to systems of people, including the church
  - often a component found within many other mental disorders as well
* is one of the civilized emotions
  - evil conditions of the heart that comes from unbelief
* is one of the most common mental health issues experienced by individuals
  - psychological concerns for college students
  - distressing emotions that people feel
  - frequently reported health problems
* is our body's response to fear or a threatening situation
  - response to stress and the threat of pain
  - part of the human condition
* is present in our natural vulnerability to nature, sickness and death
  - long before symptoms of depression occur
  - prevalent everywhere
  - probably the greatest cause of sleep problems
  - provoked by specific threats in the environment
  - related to a natural response of the body to potentially threatening situations
  - result of repression of basic conflicts
  - said to be contagious, and persons close by feel restless and fidgety
* is the bad reactions to the self image
  - body's normal reaction to stressful situations
  - commonest cause of sleep disturbances
  - dizziness of freedom
  - feeling of being afraid, worried or tense, and threatened
  - gate through which the inner pig emerges
  - health of literature
  - medical word for unreasonable fear
* is the most common mental illness and is very treatable if diagnosed
  - symptom seen in a psychologist's or psychiatrist's office
  - commonly reported side effect of smoking marijuana
  - frequent emotional symptom reported by dyslexics
  - natural state of human nature
  - negative expression or judgment against following one's bliss or excitement
  - number one mental illness that children and adolescents suffer from
  - physiological and psychological response to an imaginary danger
  - primary internalizing reason for child mental health referrals
  - psychological response of dread or fear to an undetermined threat
* is the result of future-oriented thoughts
  - some stressor
  - suspension between anastophic and catastrophic expectations
  - very big problem with a lot of autistic people
  - wavering or frustration of an emotion
  - useful because it motivates people toward self-actualization
  - very common, so there can be many causes
  - worry, apprehension or concern about something unknown in the future
* is, after all, one of the most common of human problems.
* leads to fear
  - increased stress hormone levels
* learned behavior.
* level of concern, reasonable or unreasonable about what is going to happen.
* makes people long for a rational, certain future.
* means worrying about the future, and becoming tense or stressed as a result.
* mixture of physical and mental symptoms.
* natural emotional reaction to a threatening situation
  - human response to a threatening situation
  - part of being a parent
* neuroses, panic attacks and agoraphobia.
* nonpsychotic conditions in and of themselves.
* normal emotion and a powerful motivator.
* normal emotion that people experience when facing uncertainty or danger
  - facing uncertainty ordanger
  - experience that can become a problem for some people
  - function of normal behavior
* normal human emotion
* normal part of childhood
  - children's behavioral and emotional development
* normal part of life, and everybody gets a little bit anxious from time to time
  - it occurs in seniors too
  - physiological response in anticipation of a potential stressor
  - reaction to cancer
  - response to threatening or stressful stimuli
* normal, healthy feeling.
* often comes about when people hold in their fears until they begin to feel anxiety.
* often interferes with close relationships
  - sleep and concentration
  - is felt very keenly and expressed by women in the post-abortion period
  - results from the incapacity to do so
  - shows up in lack of affection for the baby and, in turn, self-blame and guilt
  - stems from our worrying over the past or the future
* part of what it means to be human.
* persistent feeling of uneasiness or apprehension.
* physical and emotional state of apprehension
  - as well as a psychological reality
* powerful and sometimes useful emotion for self-preservation.
* prevents women from having orgasms and prevents men from getting aroused.
* problem for patients because it is an unpleasant sensation
  - when our body reacts as if there is danger when there is no real danger
* produces an increase in various physiological and mental processes
  - stress which can become dangerous and produce conflict
* psychological arousal which results from an unrealistic fear.
* ranges from worry to fear to panic to terror.
* reaction to a real or imagined threat, a general feeling of uneasiness or dread.
* response to an unexpected threat or fear due to anticipating possible danger
  - what is new, unknown or dramatic
* seems to be higher among the lower classes of society.
* sometimes starts with a difficult or painful experience.
* state characterized by vague fear or premonition.
* sticky substance infused with fear.
* still lingers in many forms.
* stong feeling of fear or dread.
* stress condition.
* survival mechanism.
* symptom of underlying concern, worry or fear.
* symptom, anxiety disorders represent various syndromes.
* temporary and often limited condition.
* tends to be more generalized and stable in nature.
* thin stream of fear trickling through the mind.
* usually begins with constant worry but can lead to panic attacks and agoraphobia
  - hits in public places, old buildings or hospitals
* vague uncomfortable feeling of fear, dread, or danger from an unknown cause.
* very common disorder, which affects millions of people yearly
  - precipitant of addictive habits
  - presenting problem for people begninng psychtherapy
  - problem that causes tremendous suffering
* warning signal similar to a trouble light on the dash of an automobile.
* worry about daily life can prevent a man from feeling sexual.