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The American psychological association (APA) defines anxiety as “an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts and physical changes like increased blood pressure.” We are afraid of losing things and at the same time, we have the urge to obtain it. At that time the heightened sense of feelings is called anxiety. Anxiety is a normal and often healthy emotion. However, when a person regularly feels disproportionate levels of anxiety.
It might become a medical disorder. Similarly, a panic disorder is that you feel the terror that strikes at random. During a panic attack, you may also sweat, have chest pain, and feel palpitations. Sometimes you may feel like you’re choking or having an attack.
All anxiety disorders share some general symptoms:
Panic, fear, uneasiness, sleep problems, not being able to stay calm and still feeling cold, sweating numbers r tingling in the hands or feet, and palpitations. Pakistan has one of the lowest mental illness patients-to-doctors ratios in the world. this is the duty of our government to provide funds and mental health professionals especially psychologists, to provide leadership. sone changes in lifestyle help individuals to take control of it.
Moreover, stigma and shame must be uprooted from our communities. The least we can do is to allow for mentally ill patients to seek adequate support.
