Anxiety is one of the most common mental health disorders found with the clinical setting. It is a characterized emotion that is dealing the with worry, stress, and the feeling of being overwhelmed. When a person is experiencing anxiety, they have a feeling of tension and worry and stressful thoughts (racing thoughts).
Often times, anxiety occurs when there are changes that are occurring within the patients’ physical outside world. Anxiety can also affect your body (health). It can also cause you to have acute and chronic health issues such as high blood pressure; high blood pressure is sometimes linked to this mental health disorder.
Sometime people feel tension from worrying, when they are responding from a preceived throught or threat (Mayo Clinic, 2025) This can be linked to changes or anything such as changes in family dynamics, relationships, job loss, financial issues, health issues, It can occur from any outside or outer stimuli.
With anxiety, you have an intense fear of worrying. Oftentimes people have issues with their sleep with anxiety (Holland, 2023). They have a hard time getting enough sleep and plenty of rest. Anxiety can also be accompanied with physical tension and behavior; it can affects one’s cognitive ability as well. Often times people have a hard time thinking clearly, when they are going through these things.
Anxiety can also alert you to danger, a natural reflex such as “flight or fight”, used for survival (American Psychiatric Association, 2025). Anxiety is also found in trauma such as PTSD.
References
American Psychiatric Association (2025). What are anxiety disorders? Retrieved from https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/anxiety-disorders/what-are-anxiety-disorders
Holland, K. (2023). Everything you need to know about anxiety. Retrieved from https://www.healthline.com/health/anxiety.
Mayo Clinic (2025). Anxiety disorders. Retrieved from https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/anxiety/symptoms-causes/syc-20350961
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