Psychological & physical Problems

physical symptoms of anxiety and depression

Depression

Depression or depression can make you feel worthless, deeply guilty, or feel that you cannot handle life or a situation. Beliefs can stand up if:

  • I add nothing of significance / I do not matter
  • I am worthless / a loser / a failure
  • I am stupid / limp / lazy / weird / ugly
  • I can not handle all of this
  • I can not be there / I ruin everything
  • I can not maintain relationships
  • I am alone
  • I am a burden / I am a burden to others

Anxiety

These disorders affect how we feel and behave and can cause physical symptoms. Mild anxiety is vague and unsettling, while severe anxiety can seriously affect day-to-day living.

Anxiety disorders affect 40 million people in the United States (U.S.). It is the most common group of mental illnesses in the country. However, only 36.9 percent of people with the condition receive treatment.

physical symptoms of anxiety and depression

physical symptoms of anxiety and depression

Insanity

Insanity, craziness, or madness is a spectrum of both group and individual behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity may manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person or persons becoming a danger to themselves or others, though not all such acts are considered insanity; it has been associated with the idea of contagion, as in the case of copycat suicides, likewise, not all acts showing indifference toward societal norms are acts of insanity.

In modern usage, insanity is most commonly encountered as an informal unscientific term denoting mental instability, or in the narrow legal context of the insanity defense. In the medical profession, the term is now avoided in favor of diagnoses of specific psychiatric diseases; the presence of delusions or hallucinations is broadly referred to as psychosis. When discussing psychiatric illness in general terms, "psychopathology" is considered a preferred descriptor.


Phobia

Take the example of Josh: He is terrified of flying. This fear takes its toll. He has to travel regularly for his work. Weeks before he goes on a journey he has a knot in his stomach and a feeling of fear in his body that does not want to leave.

And on the day of the trip, he feels he has to surrender and in the plane, he feels light in his head and begins to hyperventilate. Unfortunately, it gets worse and worse every time.

josh fear of flying has become so bad that he only travels to locations he can reach by car. In the meantime, he is afraid of losing his job or being transferred to another job. But that loss is still less bad than the agony of traveling with an airplane.

A phobia is an intense fear of something that in reality rarely or never occurs, or does not pose a real danger. Common fears and phobias are Fear of speaking in public, fear of fright, fear of driving, social fears, fear of needles and fear of certain animals.

physical symptoms of anxiety and depression