Member states of distress and anxiety

The everyday problems and stress, precipitating factors are both distress and anxiety. Both terms are often difficult to distinguish, but psychiatrists and psychologists have sought to define its elements differentials.

In anguish, the individual has a diffuse fear, is not in relation to a particular situation or experience, being the central feeling the anticipation of an imminent catastrophe future problems related to economic, health, fear of dying, going crazy, etc. .

As for the distinction between anxiety and anguish, which are equivalent expressions, we could say that anxiety is very mediated by the apprehension, concern and anticipation and anxiety is more physical, more drastic and acute.

Anxiety is a reaction that belongs to humans, which can be adaptive, enabling performance and motivation. The pathological anxiety, on the other hand, inhibits performance, is disproportionate to the events with which it is connected or even appears as a state of apprehension and fear in the absence of dangerous circumstances.

By definition, two forms of states of anxiety or distress, may occur: an acute form, where the characteristic you are a recurrent panic attacks unexplained, and a second form where a state of anxiety is chronic and there is an excessive concern about several aspects vital.

In the acute anxiety (Anxiety Disorder), defining what are the panic attacks, consisting immersed in a feeling of apprehension and alarming accompanied by unpleasant physical sensations, which are often the following: palpitations, designs, dizziness, breathlessness, chills, weakness , Headache, chest pain, fainting, trembling, sweating, fear of dying, blurred vision, diarrhea, abdominal discomfort.

The chronic anxiety (generalized anxiety disorder), involves a state of internal tension, chronic and persistent, where a variety of physical symptoms is present: headache, feeling of instability, blurred vision, dry mouth, sweating especially in the hands, feet and armpits, weight in the stomach, nausea, palpitations, frequent urination, tingling in the extremities, muscle pain, heaviness in legs or arms, fatigue, difficulty sleeping, irritability, worry and apprehension. In this case, unlike the person who suffers from panic attacks, there is a constant and chronic anxiety, and although you can never have exacerbations with acuity and intensity of panic attacks.

The vulnerability to suffer psychological state of anxiety and anguish the psychologists have focused on the styles of interpreting the world and themselves that these patients have, namely the style of thinking, how to include the environmental difficulties, and what So to react to them.

The problems of everyday life and stress precipitating factors are exacerbated and pathological responses.

From a psychological point of view, patients with generalized anxiety tend to be very concerned about the acceptance of others, competence, accountability and control of environment and of themselves.