What are the clinical symptoms of anxiety?

  One morning in June, an elderly female patient came to the clinic, opened the door and walked up to the doctor and said, “Doctor, please help me, I’m in too much pain, too much suffering, and now I’m thinking of dying. “. The doctor asked her to sit on the consultation chair, but she said, “Doctor, I’ll just stand, I can’t sit, I’m also very tired, also want to sit, but I can’t sit ah.” At this time, the doctor found that the patient had disheveled hair, tightly locked eyebrows, a long face, seemed to be crying, hands kept rubbing, feet kept walking, and paced back and forth beside the examination table from time to time.  So how is anxiety defined? Anxiety is a state of mind that threatens one’s safety and other negative consequences. In this case, the patient is worried about his own health or other problems without any obvious objective factors or sufficient basis, and he is so nervous and fearful that he is restless, sighing, complaining, and feeling like a big trouble is coming, and he cannot be relieved even after many persuasions. When it comes to anxiety, some people ask, “Is anxiety a good thing or a bad thing?” To answer this question, anxiety is a common emotion. People experience different levels of anxiety in different situations and try to prevent adverse situations that cause anxiety and actively do activities to reduce anxiety, which is a protective reaction. When the severity of anxiety is disproportionate to the objective event or situation, or when it lasts too long, it is pathological anxiety, clinically known as anxiety symptoms.  The manifestation of anxiety symptoms includes two aspects, mental symptoms on the one hand and physical symptoms on the other. The mental symptoms are what we call psychogenic anxiety, which refers to the patient’s subjective experience of tension and anxiety. Common manifestations include unexplained restlessness, irritability, worry and fear, or fear and avoidance of specific objects and/or contents, or uncontrollable recurrent thoughts knowing that they are unnecessary, or impulses, memories and related behaviors, or feelings of near death, unreality or dissociation. Somatic symptoms are what we call somatic anxiety, which refers to anxiety manifested by somatic symptoms or somatic language, i.e., external manifestations of anxiety, such as fidgeting, increased small movements, tense facial expressions, or more prominent dyspnea, where patients subjectively feel hyperventilation, chest tightness, poor breathing, and may experience sigh-like breathing or a sense of suffocation; cardiovascular symptoms include precordial pain in the form of tingling or vague pain, dull pain, etc., lasting It may last for several hours, and there may be local pressure pain; panic and palpitation are common; symptoms of the nervous system may include tinnitus, blurred vision, dizziness and fainting sensation; manifestations of autonomic nerve dysfunction such as frequent urination, urinary urgency, impotence, cold libido, menstrual disorders; other symptoms may be accompanied by sweating of the hands and feet, and in acute attacks, there may be profuse sweating, muscle tension in the neck, face and limbs, and in severe cases, convulsions, etc.