Module seven differences in anxiety and normal nervousness. Everyone gets nervous when it comes to stressful situations such as taking a test finishing a project or even teaching a class. Normal nervousness may cause mild symptoms such as fidgeting, stomach fluttering or shaking hands, but they do not hinder your performance. Anxiety goes beyond simple nervousness because many symptoms of anxiety are described as crippling or debilitating, and typically interfere with our ability to complete certain tasks. distinguishing between these two stages is a big step in successfully managing anxiety symptoms. It runs along a spectrum.

Anxiety has a wide spectrum on which different symptoms and feelings can be placed. When preparing to speak in front of a group. You may feel your stomach flutter or butterflies, which is a normal part of nervousness. But if you approach the group and your stomach feels as though a pack of horses is running, through it. Then we've slid over to the anxiety side of the spectrum because symptoms are more intense. This spectrum can also be seen as a range in which symptoms can start off mild or moderate and then progress to the other side and become more severe.

Anxiety spectrums can be divided into different disorders to help gauge symptoms and judge where a person falls in that range and can better pinpoint any characteristics of anxiety disorders, common anxiety spectrums, obsessive compulsive spectrum, social anxiety spectrum, general anxiety spectrum, panic agoraphobia spectrum, anxiety can happen without a cause. While many fears are justified and usually have some sort of cause or basis, anxiety can happen anytime and without a particular cause or root. Unfortunately, we are not always able to see that our anxiety does not have a real basis. Yet we still have the same feelings. Common nervousness has a valid reason and some sort of signal that you could feel symptoms soon. Although it is unclear why anxiety does not give us a warning sign, but you will always have the upper hand if you learn to accept the symptoms as they come and remember to work through them instead of turning away from them.

Tips for managing symptoms when symptoms arise, don't avoid them. Determine if you just feel nervous, or if you're becoming anxious. Record symptoms in a log or journal to help identify a cause. The length of time symptoms last general nervousness symptoms appear when we are faced with uncomfortable situations, but the symptoms usually do not last very long and for the most part subside soon after. However, anxiety symptoms typically appear quickly and lasts much longer than nervous feelings. symptoms can last several minutes, days or can even span it.

For a number of weeks, feelings of anxiety can last for an extended length of time, especially since they can turn into a cycle of anxiety which can be hard to end when symptoms continue over a length of time. This causes more anxiety and can make it hard to distinguish when one set of anxiety feelings end and when others begin. It's an exaggeration of normal feelings. When we are nervous, we can experience symptoms that cause us discomfort such as shaking hands or quick and breathing. symptoms such as these are normal and generally do not interfere with what we are doing. anxiety symptoms can be similar but they can appear more exaggerated and intense.

Shaking hands can turn into whole body tremors and shallow breathing can turn into choking or gasping for air. Oftentimes, symptoms can seem so severe that people are thought to be suffering from some sort of physical medical condition. Such as a heart attack or gastroenteritis. People who suffer from severe anxiety and exaggerated symptoms will often visit several doctors before being diagnosed with anxiety and begin proper treatment.