High Anxiety Symptoms

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"I am Doctor David Thomas. I am a practicing psychotherapist with the Whitford Thomas group in Tampa, Florida. To discuss high anxiety symptoms. High anxiety at least in my frame and my thinking is an is an extreme form of anxiety. We tend to see that in when we diagnose panic as well as anxiety attacks. So if we look at high anxiety being an a more severe form of anxiety, it can kind of liken to all your anxiety symptoms and often times kind of come and go or kind of transient to into kind of emerge all at one time in the system. What are some of those symptoms? Well certainly when we look at anxiety and we talk about fear there is a rush a kind of a hype hyper sensitivity in the system, often times what you see is the the heart palpitations tend to be very fast kind of a racing heart, racing ideas, skin moisture, tend to see in a lot of tension in the in the head, muscle aches, stomach problems, restlessness, sleep disorders, a sense of doom a sense of wanting to run, isolation, concentration issues and things of that sort as well. So when we have this kind of heightened or this kind of high anxiety symptoms it is almost like all these symptoms kind of merge at one time in the system then produce a very severe or dramatic effect. Treatment wise is pretty much the same cognant to behave or psychotherapy with or without medications at that time when you are experiencing a high level of anxiety you probably want to learn different breathing techniques, relaxation techniques so you can very quickly bring the symptoms down. Now with a little bit of work and help you can certainly focus on the thinking that drives the anxiety but without some prior training it is kind of tough to focus on challenging and disputing the thinking at that time. We do that mainly in our practice with cognant behavior psychotherapy. Well I hope this information has been helpful regarding high anxiety. From Tampa, Florida I am Doctor David Thomas."