Open anxiety or an opened manifestation of a defense mechanism (like a phobia) or both. Not limited an adjustment upheaval. Referibles somatic symptoms to the independent nervous system or a specific system of organs (for example, disnea, palpitaciones, parestesias).

It is not from physical upheavals, psychiatric states (schizophrenia) or of drugs (caffein). The anxiety is a reaction to a real or imaginary danger. He is ubicua and it can be a fleeting symptom or a debilitated chronic state. The anxiety upheavals can reflect the turn out on an attempt of bad adaptation to solve internal conflicts, that usually include not solved problems of the childhood like dependency, insecurity, hostility, excessive necessity of affection, preoccupations on the privacy of very intense impulses of being able and control.

The main components of the anxiety are psychological (tension, fears, difficulty of concentration, apprehension) and somatic (tachycardia, hyperventilation, tremor, sudación). In the annoyances of multiple systems other systems of organs can participate (for example, gastrointestinales). The fatigue and the upheavals of the dream are common. The simpaticomimétricos symptoms of anxiety are an answer to a state of the central nervous system and a reinforcement of greater anxiety. The anxiety can become in autogeneradora since the symptoms reinforce the reaction, originating a spiral. The resulting anxiety is handled in different forms. It can float freely, originating acute attacks of anxiety, that sometimes are made chronic.

When one works or several mechanisms of defense, the consequences are known problems affluent, like phobias, disociativos reactions of conversion, states, obsessions and compulsiones. The lack of structure is a factor contributor, as it is observed in the people who have "Sunday neurosis". They act well during the week with a program of planned work but they cannot tolerate the weekend without structure some.

The activities of planned time tend to imply anxiety and many people have greater difficulties when it is lost, like in the retirement. Some think that diverse manifestations of anxiety are not from unconscious conducts, but that is "habits", that is to say, persistent patterns of nonadoptativa conduct acquired by learning. The "habits" that are not adoptativos, are average nonsatisfactory to deal with the problems of the life, and there the resulting anxiety. Aid only looks for when the anxiety becomes very laborious. The exogenous factors, like the stimulants (for example, caffein), must consider like causal factors or contributors.