What are the Symptoms of Nervous Anxiety?

The adaptive function of anxiety

Everyone occasionally feels symptoms of anxiety in situations like public speaking or before a job interview. It’s what we commonly call internal nerves.

In reality, anxiety is comparable to other responses that our body experiences, such as pain or the need to eat or sleep. At the right time, any of these sensations do their job.

Likewise, healthy (adaptive) anxiety prepares us to face situations that pose some difficulty. One of the roles of anxiety is to increase our intellectual or physical performance in specific situations.

Anxiety levels

But there are many levels of anxiety. There is adaptive or normal anxiety and pathological anxiety that occurs when the activation of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system is maintained for too long, generating unpleasant physical symptoms.

These persistent symptoms warn us that something in our psychic system is not working properly. In our center, we use an expression to explain its function “Anxiety is to the psychic system what pain is to the physical system.”

Anxiety is so frequent or intense that it becomes a problem in daily life for some people. This happens when the level of activation and…