The autonomic nervous system has two separate divisions: the sympathetic nervous system,
which accelerates the heart rate, constricts blood vessels, and raises blood pressure, and the parasympathetic nervous system, which slows the heart rate, increases intestinal and gland activity, and relaxes sphincter muscles.
This notion is strengthened by reports of increased cardiac reactivity in avoidant infants in the strange situation paradigm: Sroufe and Waters [121] showed in an early
study accelerated heart rate in both dismissing and preoccupied children, while only dismissing attached children minimized the display of emotion.
It is shorthand for the following: «Mental arithmetic is a voluntary activity that requires effort, should not be performed while making a left turn, and is associated with dilated pupils and
an accelerated heart rate.»
The psychology term for this is «flooding,» or the physical response that occurs when talking about a problem with a partner, which can involve everything from
an accelerated heart rate to sweating to a nervous stomach.
Weakness, anemia, and
an accelerated heart rate are other symptoms.
You know what it's like —
the accelerated heart rate, the shorter breaths, the frantic searching, the attempts to reassure that nothing critical will happen in a half - hour of separation.
Whether you are feeling anxious or excited about something, your body responds the same way: «butterflies» in your stomach,
accelerated heart rate, restlessness, feverishness, elevated adrenalin.
The most immediate symptom you'll notice is
an accelerated heart rate, but DPA will also cause an increase in sweating, elevated stress hormone production, and as a result an impairment in your ability to think clearly and process information.