Is Anxiety a Cop Out?

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Anxiety. Everyone has heard the term. It is becoming more common place, and accepted by physicians. It is a real condition; however, some people may be taking advantage of it to get out of working for a living, like everyone else.

Anxiety is a psychological condition characterized by feelings of worry, uneasiness and dread. It should not be confused with fear. Anxiety is described as more of a feeling of impending doom.

The condition is considered to be a normal reaction to stress. It may help and individual to be ready to cope, with a stressful situation. For some individuals it can become overwhelming, and it becomes classified as a disorder.

It is a condition covering many types of illness. These mental illness's only became accepted toward the end of the 19th century. Anxiety is defined by mental apprehension, physical tension, physical symptoms, and dissociative anxiety. Visit, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety_disorder, for more information.



According to and article written by, Kismet Baun with an Introduction By Dr. Taylor Alexander http://www.ontario.cmha.ca/about_mental_health.asp?cID=48249,until recently people diagnosed with mental illness were given little hope of every living a normal life. Today, there is hope for a full recovery.

Everyone feels anxious from time to time. Stressful situations like meeting obligations, deadlines, and dealing with life's small issues, such as keeping up with your house cleaning, making supper, doing your laundry and picking up the groceries, can make people feel nervous, and overwhelmed.

About 1 in 4 people experience anxiety some time in their lives; one, in ten currently have an anxiety order. Many people think they can get over these disorders by themselves. Usually, this is not the case. Fortunately, there are many treatments available.

Researchers don't know exactly what causes some people to have anxiety disorder, but they do no there are various causes involved. Some people may think that some situations are more dangerous than others, like flying, or riding a bus. There are others that may of had a bad experience, like being bitten by a dog, when they were a child, and fear that it will happen again.

More and more, is becoming known about anxiety disorder; however, it can be misunderstood and misdiagnosed. People could convince their doctors that they have anxiety attacks, and not be in the condition to hold a job.

Symptoms vary depending on the type of anxiety disorder. They could be feelings of panic, fear or uneasiness, uncontrollable, obsessive thoughts, nightmares, or ritualistic behaviours. These are just some of the many symptoms that may characterize this disorder.

Getting diagnosed with anxiety disorder can be a an arduous, uncertain process, but a new blood test can detect these disorders in hours, according to scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

After a review of the psychiatric history of over 450 patients, found by checking for a high level of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), a blood protein people release when under stress, they were able to diagnose these disorders about 90% of the time. There are some people that may be honestly trying to fake anxiety attacks; however, the majority of them may indeed be telling the truth about what their feeling. Since there is treatment available, it should not prevent an individual from working.

Before writing this blog, I was unconvinced that anxiety is real. After doing the research, and finding out that there may be a simple blood test , I am much more convinced that this is a real condition, and people are not faking it.