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Normal and pathological anxiety

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Anxiety Disorders

Abstract

The symptoms of “anxiety” are listed under two headings. Subjective ones (i.e. those felt as “psychological” experiences) include fear, emotional worries, feelings of terror, depersonalisation etc., and occasionally mental acts such as obsession-like thoughts concerning the safety of others, fear of dying etc. On the other hand, the “objective” symptoms of anxiety (also called “somatic” and later on “anxiety-equivalents”) include abdominal pain, nausea, vertigo, dizziness, palpitations, dry mouth, hot flushes, hyperventilation, breathlessness, headache, restless legs, and other bodily experiences sometimes indistinguishable from complaints caused by physical disease. At the beginning of the 19th century, Landré-Beauvais (1813) defined “anxieté” as “a certain malaise, restlessness, excessive agitation” suggesting that these states may accompany “acute” and “chronic” diseases. With this approach, anxiety becomes a syndrome with both subjective and somatic components, and which can accompany diverse diseases.

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