How do you just develop anxiety?
July 30th, 2010
How do you just develop anxiety? My whole life I’ve never had any issues whatsoever with anxiety, up until 4 years ago or so. It’s extremely sporadic so it doesn’t affect my every day life but when it does hit, it’s nuts. Heavy breathing, heavy chest, hot face, tingles and whooshs like you wanna pass out. I try to breathe deep and think about something else but that’s nearly impossible.
Of course, if I look back, I can pick apart stressful events that may have triggered this or continue to. My questions are:
-How can you just develop it when you never had it before? I am a very outgoing-people person and this doesn’t fit my personality whatsoever.
-Does it ever really go away once you have it? I mean, can you “cure” it? It seems like once you have it everyone learns to control it – it never really goes away.
-I’ve been on medication and it supposed to help although it’s not primarily for anxiety. I don’t want, nor feel I need to be on anything daily. It’s like twice a year maybe it happens and can go from a day to multiple days depending on the situation.
It’s very frustrating to just “develop” something you never had and does not fit your normal personality. Not to mention it can somewhat affect maybe not your daily life in whole, but your situation on that daily basis.
HELEN
Categories: Health Issues | Tags: Multiple Days, Personality, Whole Life
Barbara
Just like adults, children can develop anxiety disorders. Often, anxiety disorders can be triggered by a stressful situation such as losing a parent or even moving. However, anxiety disorders may develop without an external cause. Younger children may have separation anxiety or phobias while older children are more likely to have generalized anxiety or social anxiety. Learn to recognize the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in children.
Steven
Unfortunately there’s no straight answer to your question. Anxiety comes from different factors, age and hormones are major contributors. Also the people you are around are major contributors as well. Think about what have changed in your life since the time you had anxiety (focusing on these major contributors) and see if you come up with an answer. If it is something you can control, then it should be resolved.