A View Of Anxiety Disorder And Its Cause And Effect

Being diagnosed with anxiety disorder is more than just having panic attacks and anxious thought. Most individuals suffering from anxiety would often end up with psychosomatic diseases as their thought would trigger the sickness to surfaced. Though anxiety disorder does not have an exact cure, treatment varies per individual. Before looking for a cure, however, it is important to know what the underlying cause is.

It is important to get a glimpse of the person's past, to know what triggered his/her anxiety. The causes can be traced back from the patient's past or childhood wherein he/she was able to experience a traumatic experience and was not given any therapy.

Anxiety is the body's response to stress, when the underlying emotions or thought are highly suppressed, according to the Elephant Journal. "The adrenal medulla gives the body more energy to deal with the stress of overwhelm. It will increase organ function and produce the stress hormones of norepinephrine, dopamine, and epinephrine to trigger the sympathetic fight or flight response. This gives us a huge spike in energy to achieve tasks."

The intense fatigue felt by the individual after an anxiety attack is the body's way of healing. "When the stress has passed, the adrenal medulla will decrease organ function and go into heal and repair mode. This dramatically lowers energy levels and causes extreme fatigue. If the core conflict and Achilles-heel stress patterns are left unresolved, this active brain relay can lead to chronic symptoms of adrenal fatigue."

Though patients that are diagnosed with anxiety went through a traumatic experience, there are those who got the disorder from their parents. One type of anxiety known as "Social Anxiety Disorder" can potentially be genetic. A genetic component of SAD has the capability to be inherited, wherein the heritability is said to be around 30 percent to 40 percent, cited About Health.