In hospital settings, all clients and their loved ones are vulnerable to feeling anxiety as they seek care for medical problems. Everyone may feel anxiety at times especially when facing an unknown situation like starting a new job. Under normal conditions, this discomfort is short-lived and may be helpful for problem solving. Anxiety is part of the human reaction to stress. Most people respond to anxiety by using coping skills that are learned external behaviors or internal though process consciously used to decrease discomfort. Anxious persons show physical, emotional, and cognitive manifestations according to their level of anxiety. A person experiencing mild anxiety has increased pulse and blood pressure, has a positive affect, and has an alertness that can solve a problem and that can prepare to learn information. In moderate anxiety, a person has elevated vital signs, tense muscles, and diaphoresis (excessive sweating). The person is tense and fearful. His or her attention is focused on one concern - which may able to concentrate with direction. During severe anxiety, a person manifests fight - or - flight response, dry mouth, and numb extremities, distressed emotion, and decreased sensory perception which can focus only on details and unable the person to learn new information. Lastly, when a person reaches the panic level - is very overwhelmed - ignores …show more content…
In particular, what is happening inside when this condition sets in, and from here we can see what one might be able to do in order to reduce the effects from progressing further, and hopefully stop them all together. Firstly what is anxiety and who will experience it? Anxiety is a term used to describe one of our emotions. It is an emotion that we all will experience at some point or other, indeed it is a common emotion and as such, there is nothing unusual about it or any need to be concerned. In fact I would go as far to say it is one of our most common and basic emotions. In short, while it is unpleasant, it is not at all harmful in itself. The emotion that is anxiety is one that signifies fear or apprehension, a state where there is anticipation of a perceived or real threat. While most people will be able to relate to this emotion, there is a distinct difference between this basic emotion and the one that is generally referred to when one is said to be suffering with anxiety. That difference is one of magnitude, and worse, when the anxiety reaches extreme levels the sufferer may experience what is known as a panic or anxiety attack, where what the sufferer experiences is nothing short of terrifying and unbearable. Symptoms of these attacks do vary, but can include breathlessness, tingling and dizziness. Remembering that anxiety is simply an