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Fear is not described as something that is inhumane. In fact, everyone battles a sense of fear of something at one point or time in their lives. However, it is how you deal with this fear that can cause a big problem in your life.

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Ori­ginally posted 2010-​​02-​​26 12:48:00.

Anxiety can be defined as emotions which are typ­ically negative in nature. It will often consist of fear and worry, and some organisms may even experience physical signs such as nausea or chest pains. Anxiety is a complex emotion, and is composed of a number of dif­ferent elments. Some of these elements are somatic or cog­nitive, and the body will prepare itself to deal with an external threat. The heart rate speeds up, and the blood pressure is increased. The various muscles in the body will also receive elevated levels of blood. At the same time, the functions of the digestive system will slow down.

People who have anxiety will gen­erally have a sense of dread. A number of vol­untary and invol­untary pro­cesses will take place in the body, and the goal of these pro­cesses is to get the organism away from the source that is causing it to have anxiety. Anxiety is an important emotion, and is designed to increase the survival rate of organisms. In humans it appears that anxiety comes from the hip­po­campus and amygdala, two regions of the brain. When a person senses bad odors or tastes, there will be a large amount of blood flow which will be present in the amygdala. The evidence also shows that medium levels of anxiety will be present in this situation as well.

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Ori­ginally posted 2009-​​03-​​23 23:33:07.

Aside from being mega-​​rich and famous, what do David Beckham and Leonardo di Caprio have in common? Both suffer from Obsessive-​​Compulsive Disorder (OCD),  Obsessive-​​Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety disorder that is char­ac­terized by an obsessive or dis­tressing thought.  It may also involve com­pulsions or “rituals.”   It is such a serious concern that event the World Health Organ­ization has labeled OCD as among the top 10 most dis­abling ill­nesses faced by society today.   In the United States alone, it is estimated that 3.3 million people are suf­fering from OCD.

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Ori­ginally posted 2009-​​03-​​24 13:11:56.