Anxiety disorder can have a severely negative effect on a person's daily life. What makes the condition especially tumultuous, is that it produces symptoms capable of inducing increasingly stronger reactions. This creates a dynamic that tends to lock people inside the effects of this disorder, making treatment all the more difficult.
For example, excessive worry, stress, and anxiety, in tandem with elements of heredity and environment may produce a panic attack in a person suffering from an anxiety disorder. Panic attacks produce a number of discomforting reactions, including shortness of breath, dizziness, tightness of chest, disorientation, and fatigue. As these symptoms emerge during an attack, an individual may be so overwhelmed by the effects of anxiety that he is unable to experience the symptoms in perspective, and instead start to believe that he is dying. The thought of sudden death only serves to produce more anxiety, exacerbating the panic attack …