| The term 'anxiety' covers multiple forms of | | | | rate, blood pressure, sweating and flow of blood |
| abnormal pathological disorders connected to fear, | | | | to muscles. Also the digestive system and |
| phobia and nervousness of mind. Anxiety may | | | | immune system undergo restricted functionality. |
| emerge with sudden manifestation or develop | | | | Visible symptoms of such somatic activity are |
| gradually over a period of time that may | | | | dilation of pupils, cold shivers and paling of skin. |
| constitute several years. | | | | The Fight/Flight Response |
| The individual suffering from anxiety may fail to | | | | Anxiety is the human body's natural defense |
| fulfill the needs of his/her social life and may falter | | | | mechanism against perceived threat or risk. The |
| during normal course of daily routine. Both the | | | | scientific term used to describe anxiety is the |
| fear and anxiety are different phenomenal | | | | fight/flight response and is called so as anxiety is |
| emotional patterns connected to specific scientific | | | | always oriented towards either fighting or fleeing |
| disorders. These two words can hence be used | | | | the threat. |
| interchangeably. A phobia for instance, which is a | | | | Nervous Breakdown |
| state of mental anxiety, stands to be defined as | | | | Nervous breakdown was called melancholia till the |
| a persistent or irrational fear. | | | | beginning of the 20th century when its name was |
| Anxiety is a condition or state in which a human | | | | altered to neurasthenia. The term nervous |
| simultaneously experiences multiple emotions of | | | | breakdown was used for the first time around |
| terror, agony and worry. Physically, it is | | | | 1930 and is still in usage. Generally, it is indicative |
| characterized by an increased heartbeat rate, | | | | of a wide range of mental sickness but more |
| breathlessness, headaches and throbbing pain in | | | | specifically it means breaking,snapping or losing |
| the chest region. Anxiety has four different parts | | | | hope in high mental pressure or stress scenarios. |
| or components namely behavioral, emotional, | | | | "Nervous breakdown" is not officially a clinical term |
| cognitive and somatic. | | | | and doesn't have anything to do with nerves. The |
| Description | | | | closest clinical term to the colloquially called |
| A trademark behavioral aspect of anxiety is that | | | | nervous breakdown, is major depression. |
| a person suffering from it, willingly or unwillingly | | | | Depression is caused by biological and genetic |
| looks to evade its causes or sources. Emotionally, | | | | factors but can be triggered by environmental |
| anxieties lead to immense fear and subsequently | | | | and social state of affairs. |
| panic attacks, which occur in situations of | | | | Specific examples of triggers are problems in |
| extreme anxiety. The cognitive mechanism | | | | relationships, death of someone close, deception |
| creates anticipation in humans, similar to animals, | | | | by others, monetary and ego troubles. People |
| of a remote and vague peril. | | | | having a nervous breakdown lose interest in most |
| In the somatic sense the human body | | | | activities including daily hygiene care. They always |
| automatically readies itself (emergency reaction) | | | | feel tired, energy less, and low without doing |
| to face the danger by increasing the heartbeat | | | | absolutely any physical work. |