Anxiety, often known as a debilitating state, has an explanation in a very natural function. The survival instinct known as “fight or flight” emergency reaction, is a mechanism to all of this. Anxiety appears as a feeling of apprehension or fear and often brings on such physiological responses as rapid heart beat, chest pains, shortness of breath and nausea. Increased flow to the muscles and secondary systems like the immune and digestive systems are caused by rerouted blood vessels.

The creation of phobias are one of the dangers that lie within anxiety. Negative reinforcement in childhood can cause a person to have an underdeveloped sense of self motivation and will lead to feelings of fear and discomfort when faced with the need to confront difficult life situations. An increased growing feeling of worthlessness and impotence are caused with the inability to take charge of one’s life, and will further escalate the problem. If not treated, anxiety can develop serious depression.

Sometimes this overweening anxiety can be brought on by the psychological prospects of the unknown. Existential anxiety can be brought on by one’s contemplating their own mortality or questioning their worth in life. An obsessive-compulsive disorder of the mind of often traced to this form of anxiety.

Fear of failure in one’s tasks is referred to as “test anxiety”. With the fear of failure and ridicule, those with an underdeveloped sense of self worth can succumb to the negative associations and create physiological symptoms that will further reduce the ability to perform and maintain a spiraling effect on the victim. This “test anxiety” can well follow a person beyond school and show up in later life in the workforce by lowered performance and the inability to function socially.

Positive reinforcement and psychological counseling, an anxiety treatment without medication, are the primary treatment for excessive anxiety disorders. There are various short term relief such as simple relaxing teas of various sorts. Include chamomile, peppermint, or valerian root to help cure the worst of physical symptoms.