Anxiety disorder can occur for very many reasons and medical research has yet to fully grasp the exact reasons behind these attacks which resulted in such severe scale as to cause extreme fear and depression. Normally, anxiety is a rather normal emotional occurrence but can turn violent thus resulting in what we know as anxiety disorder.

Many doctors, therapists and psychiatrists have different theories regarding what the causes of anxiety may be. Some state that genetics may be the key to understanding anxiety disorders. Others state that it arises from circumstances thus making it a learned behavior. Still others have no real idea as to why anxiety is caused in the first place.

However we may identify some of the more common causes of anxiety as being brought about by a mental condition, perhaps a physical condition or state. The misuse of drugs as well as the effects of certain types of prescribed medications can also become an anxiety cause. There is also the possibility that a combination of the above causes may lead to an anxiety disorder.

Some of the resulting effects of anxiety are palpitations, giddiness, and breathing difficulty, as a result of certain mental conditions as well as weak physical conditions giving rise to anxiety disorders. Still others may feel heavy pounding of heart, weakness physically, numb hands, chest pains, smothering sensations and a sense of unreality which will lead to one believing in him or her having heart attacks or stroke or even having the feeling that one is dying.

Anxiety attacks may also be a result of stress as one worry too much about certain aspect of lives. Work, school, finances, relationship, health are all areas where stress are commonly associated with.

Sometimes, medicines may do more harm than good although it is not known from the onset of prescriptions. Some drugs that doctors administered as a cure for certain diseases will in fact, caused an anxiety effect within us resulting in constant attacks and hence anxiety disorders.Other reasons can include coffee and caffeine based beverages, amphetamines like speed, an overactive thyroid muscle, abnormal heart rhythms and other types of heart problems. An example of such a heart problem is mitral valve prolepses.

Generally, when a sufferer wield to the attack of anxiety disorders, it is normally between a few minutes to 10 minutes. Some extreme case of sufferer has had attacks for an hour or more but this is only in very rare cases.

Medical professionals are still analyzing the exact reasons as to the causes of anxiety, but until then, we only have snippets of clues as to the factors behind it. We can only based our cure on what we already know as the possible root causes and carry on from there.