Anxiety is a disorder that has seen its diagnosis skyrocket in recent years. In the United States alone it is estimated that thirteen percent of the population suffers from this disorder to a varying degree. These can range from full blown anxiety or panic attacks to milder forms such as anxiety that is only triggered by tests or during a decision making process.

Anxiety creates a sense of fear or unwarranted apprehension. This can be a fear or nervousness about known and unknown events. Anxiety is a fairly new disorder within the medical world that is diagnosed. Anxiety attacks can be debilitating and extremely embarrassing. For those who suffer paralyzing anxiety attacks it is very difficult to explain the dramatic effects to a person who has not experienced them.

Anxiety can range from trepidation to a sense of foreboding when thinking of future event automatically putting a negative association with them. Other mental symptoms include irritability and As well as mental symptoms, anxiety can leave marks on the physical body through a variety of symptoms such as fatigue, nervous twitches, and shortness of breath, nausea, heart palpitations, stomach and headaches.

Anxiety can be triggered by different factors. A certain percentage of anxiety is hereditary therefore it can be passes on from parent to child. Women are twice as likely to develop anxiety symptoms as men. Also traumatic experience can trigger an anxiety disorder but the most common is abnormal level of neurotransmitters in the brain.

There are ways to combat anxiety. Exercise has been known to lessen the effects as well as other actions that are thought to soothe such as hot baths and herbal teas. Meditation is also used as an alternative treatment to treat anxiety attacks. It is thought that those who have better control their mind can control their apprehension and fear associated with anxiety to those who have not experienced anxiety it can be.