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PAGE 2, HUDSPETH COUNTY HERALD-Dell Valley Review, JANUARY 24, 2002
LIFE WORKS
by John Ingram Walker, MD
WHEN FEAR GOES BAD: HOW
ANXIETY DIFFERS FROM FEAR
Does anyone who has lived in our fast-
paced, pressure-filled world require a description of
anxiety? Present in all of us to some degree, at some
time, anxiety varies from the anticipatory stimulus of an
exciting venture to an immobilizing panic that renders us
helpless. To a moderate degree, anxiety is the source of
most emotional disorders.
How does anxiety differ from fear? Fear is the
unpleasant response to an external threat; anxiety is a
painful reaction to an internal conflict. Fear persists only
as long as the danger lasts; anxiety lingers to produce
physical and emotional symptoms.
When we feel threatened, either from an actual
physical threat or a perceived threat, the nerve cells in
the part of the brain called the hypothalamus become
excited. Anxiety causes the hypothalamus to release a
hormone called CRH (cortisone releasing hormone)
which in turn signals the pituitary gland to release
another hormone called ACTH. ACTH then enters the
bloodstream and, on reaching the adrenal glands, causes
them to release the hormone adrenaline.
Adrenaline—the fight or flight hormone—causes
alertness, a rapid, heartbeat, rapid breathing, speeds the
200-299 points, 50 percent develop physical or
emotional symptoms of anxiety; and with more than 300
points, 79 percent develop anxious symptoms.
Our response to stress varies widely
depending on cultural, family and personal
experiences. For a few people, a near accident—
swerving to miss a fast moving car entering their lane on
the interstate, for example—can elicit physiologic effects
of anxiety that last for months.
In others, simply anticipating a stressful event
causes incapacitating anxiety. We all know someone, for
example, who had stomach cramps and nausea before
school exams or perhaps we know someone whose
anticipatory anxiety caused them to do poorly at a job
interview.
Even the absence of stress is, in itself, a kind of
stress. Experimental volunteers subjected to extreme
environmental deprivation develop symptoms of anxiety.
Because of our enormous adaptive capacity, most
of us adjust to the everyday stress of living, but once
problems escalate faster than they can be solved, clinical
anxiety results.
Winners are just as scared, fearful, and
frustrated as everybody else. They just don't let their
emotions and disappointments get in the way of their
steady pursuit of worthwhile goals. There exists
plenty of sweat and fear in every success story.
A
To bring
encouragement,
optimism and hope
to all I meet.
Specifically I’d like
to make you laugh
a little, think some,
appreciate more
and perhaps,
on rare occasions,
shed a tear
or two.
I want you to know
that Life Worts.
If people concentrated oi
really important things in
there’d be a shortage of fis
poles.
—Doug La
reaction time and improves perception. In short,
adrenaline makes you either want to fight or to run away.
This fight or flight mechanism, beneficial when
your house is on fire or you are attacked by a lion,
becomes harmful if the response persists after the fire is
out and the lion captured. The fight or flight response
also harms us when it is triggered by traffic jams (road
rage), the opportunity to present your ideas (fear of
public speaking), or numerous other minor events in
everyday situations.
When you become anxious—remember anxiety
is merely persistent fear after the threat has passed—
your body is put into a constant low-key state of stress
and your adrenal glands are continually producing
enough adrenaline to ready your body for an encounter,
one that will probably never happen.
Persistent anxiety produces chronic effects on the
skeletal, gastrointestinal and cardiovascular system.
Clumsiness, tremor, nervous tics, choking sensations,
and breathlessness become chronic symptoms of anxiety.
An increase in skeletal muscle tone can produce
generalized fatigue due to prolonged energy expenditure.
In the 1960s a large group of scientists, led by
Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe, developed the Social
Readjustment Rating Scale rating the environmental
stresses that may lead to anxiety-related symptom
formation. Their scale ranks 43 critical changes in the life
of an individual according to the severity of their impact.
The death of a spouse—the most severe change of all—
has a value of 100 points while a minor infraction of the
law has a ranking of 11 points. In between fall such
events as marital separation—65 points; retirement—45
points; troubles with a boss—23 points. When events
over a single year total 150-199 points, approximately 25
percent of people develop anxiety related illness; with
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helpful tips:
Watering Roses
• Water deeply to wet the
entire root zone. Allow the soil to
dry partially before watering
again.
• To reduce disease problems,
water early in the day and try to
keep the foliage dry.
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• To keep roses blooming, you
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***
All life is experiment. The:
experiments you make,
better.
—Ralph Waldo Erne
***
The Dallas Cowboys
played in the Super Bowl
times than any other tea
their eight appearances, the
boys have won five time!
lost three.
Nitrogen is the predofl
element in the Earth’s al
phere, compared to heliu
Mercury, carbon dioxid
Venus and Mars, and hyd(
on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranu(
Neptune. Pluto’s element
methane and nitrogen.
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