Anxiety Disorders: What Are They?
ever been in a physically dangerous situation can attest to this. If you are being pursued by a dog, for instance, rapid chemical and physiological changes commence inside your body. Your heart starts beating harder, pumping more blood into your arms and legs should you either need to fight or to run. Your senses are heightened, increasing your ability to gauge, and perhaps avoid, incoming danger. Also, emotions of fear, excitement, or even exhilaration will surface; further allowing you to make the appropriate response to any dangerous situation. The point is that the anxiety we feel in most everyday situations is harmless – in fact, they serve to preserve our physical well-being. Without the emotion of fear we might grow accustomed to dangerous situations and be unable to react properly when threatened. Imagine someone unafraid of incoming, high-speed traffic, someone who has no conception of how dangerous such traffic can be. Such a person will one day step into the highway with abs
