.Anxiety is your partner in PD. To understand and master anxiety you
must realize you're anxious. Many people refuse to admit they're
anxious. It's best you do. To further understand anxiety you will
need a "thermometer." And that's why the Anxiety Questionnaire was
developed. By using the Questionnaire, as you do a thermometer, or a
blood pressure cuff, you may learn how to tell if your anxiety is
reasonable or unreasonable: the anxiety that may result in your
making a trip to the Emergency Room when a panic attack mimics a
heart attack.

Anxiety, fear, uncertainty, and worry are everywhere. At different
times, different words are used to express anxiety. Each conveys a
different nuance, a different shade–but it's the same idea: one of
fear, uncertainty, or worry. And often anxiety's expressed not in
words but in physical symptoms, anxiety substitutes such as feeling
short of breath, feeling dizzy, feeling feverish, feeling faint,
feeling restless, feeling our heart pounding, feeling wobbly. The
particular words or symptoms, are important–but the circumstances and
situations in which they occur are more important. The Questionnaire
consists of 25 items. Ten relate to words describing anxiety. Each
item is given 10 points. Fifteen items relate to physical symptoms:
anxiety substitutes. Five symptoms are given 10 points. Ten symptoms
are given 5 points. The Questionnaire, modeled on the Hamilton
Anxiety Scale, the most widely used and studied, was developed over
10 years as a means of teaching patients, spouses of patients, care-
givers, and families of patients, to identify anxiety. The Anxiety
Questionnaire is a teaching aide, it's statistical validity hasn't
been established. Although we can't say with certainty we believe
scores of a 100 or more may mean you're anxious.

ANXIETY QUESTIONNAIRE

Below are words that describe anxiety or the symptoms that accompany
anxiety. If they're how you feel when you take the Questionnaire
answer YES.

Each YES is (5) or (10) points.

1. I feel my hands and/or feet tingling or burning (5) YES NO

2. I feel flushed or feverish (5) YES NO

3. I feel worried (10) YES NO

4. I feel unsteady or wobbly (10) YES NO

5. I feel nervous or irritable (10) YES NO

6. I feel my vision's blurred (5). YES NO

7. I feel anxious (10) YES NO

8. I feel dizzy or light-headed (10) YES NO

9. I feel fearful or afraid (10) YES NO

10. I feel I'm choking (10) YES NO

11. I feel uncertain (10) YES NO

12. I feel my hands and/or feet shaking or trembling. (5) YES NO

13. I feel restless or jumpy (5) YES NO

14. I feel I can't concentrate or pay attention (10) YES NO

15. I feel my heart pounding (10) YES NO

16. I feel insecure or I feel I'm losing control (10). YES NO

17. I feel short of breath (10). YES NO

18. I feel terrified (10) YES NO

19. I feel my stomach's upset or I feel nauseated (5) YES NO

20. I feel stressed or tense (10) YES NO

21. I feel faint (10) YES NO

22. I feel I'm sweating (5) YES NO

23. I feel panicked (10) YES NO

24. I feel my ears ringing or buzzing (5) YES NO

25. I feel hot or cold flashes (5) YES NO