How Anxiety Works in the Human Body

New scientific discoveries have recently revealed how the human body responds to the hormones that cause anxiety and stress - such as the fight and flight response. I have long been aware in my research how neuroscience can help provide sources of evidence and methodology into my counselling practice. At Enduringmind, Counselling in Twickenham I have many clients who are suffering with deeply ingrained patterns of anxiety – including generalised anxiety disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, panic attacks, phobias and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I firmly believe that these conditions have their roots in our evolutionary past, our childhood development and the physiological responses to stress. Now it turns out that we know more and more about how anxiety and stress is transmitted from brain to body and vice versa, not only in terms of how stress hormones – such as adrenalin and cortisol – are transmitted through our neuronal network from the limbic system, but right down to the molecular level through microscopic cells....