Physical symptoms of anxiety?
Normally anxiety is common among humans. But, chronic anxiety will affect the quality of life and can have physical symptoms on the body as well. What is anxiety? Anxiety is the body's natural response to stress. Whenever we are in certain situations that we have not faced or are yet to face, there will be a certain degree of fear, nervousness and apprehension. Eg: First day at school, attending a first job interview, giving a public speech, moving to a new place, a new relationship, etc. Normally it will not last very long. It will ward off when we come out of the situation. What happens during anxiety? It will boost up all the functions of the body to perform a particular task and achieve goals. It will trigger the fight or flight mechanism and release a flood of chemicals like adrenaline. The pulse rate, the breath rate, blood flow and the oxygen supply to the brain and other parts of the body increases. But over a period of time after the task is done or the prevailing con