Just as an active stress response can cause acute fear of losing control, hyperstimulation can cause chronic feelings of losing control. Hyperstimulation can cause feelings of losing control in other ways, too. For instance, hyperstimulation can cause: Nervous System Excitation and Dysregulation: A ch...
Participants then engaged in a social interaction task with a confederate.ResultsThe high beliefs about losing control (HLC) condition reported greater anxiety just before meeting the confederate than the low loss of control (LLC) condition. Further, HLC participants reported worse social performance ...
Help may be on the way. New Concordia research sheds light on how the fear of losingcontrolover thoughts and actions impacts OCD-related behaviour, including checking. Although more traditional types of fear—think snakes, spiders, dogs, etc.—have been well investigated, this is one of the f...
On the other hand, those with anxiety often have a fear of going crazy that comes and goes after periods of intense anxiety and stress. But that fear is what creates anxiety, and in general, the person's fear of losing control with reality tends to go away when the person feels less a...
A fear of losing control A lost sense of reality Confusion Difficulty speaking Narrowed attention, focusing only on what it is you are anxious about Poor memory Scary thoughts, mental images, or memories Physical Symptoms Anxiety isn't only a mental or emotional experience. Anxious thoughts or fe...
* Fear of losing control or going crazy * Fear of dying Numbness or a tingling sensation * Chills or hot flashes (Source: American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) 2000 Washington, DC.) ...
Racing thoughts (often based on fear; a repeated or illogical worry) Loud internal dialogue Feeling of impending doom Feeling of "going crazy" Emotional Fear that the panic is a symptom of a serious illness Fear of losing control Fear of death ...
Panic attacks are a particular type of fear response. They are abrupt surges of intense fear or discomfort accompanied by physical and/or cognitive symptoms. Some symptoms include, but are not limited to, palpitations, trembling or shaking, shortness of breath, fear of losing control or “going...
some or all of the following signs: muscle tension, restlessness, sympathetic (automonic) hyperactivity (for example, diarrhea, palpitation, rapid breathing or jitteriness), or cognitive signs and symptoms (for example, hypervigilance, confusion, decreased concentration, or fear of losing control). ...
derealization (feelings of unreality) or depersonalization (feeling detached from oneself) fear of losing control or going insane numbness or tingling sensations chills orhot flashes feeling like one is choking a sense of impending doom feeling like one is dying ...