Diagnosed with anxiety disorder by a psychiatrist? Prescribed with an anxiety drug that you need to take daily?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this post, I will talk about how it can impact your polygraph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whether there’s a real threat or only a perceived one, the symptoms of anxiety tend to be the same in an individual who has anxiety disorder. How long the symptoms of anxiety last per episode can vary from person to person or circumstance to circumstance \u2014 it’s not the same for all anxiety sufferers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In some instances, the symptoms go away after the source of stress or fear is removed or over, such as a polygraph examination that can easily scare even those who do not have anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many of the symptoms of anxiety disorder can cause a false positive on a lie detector test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because an anxiety attack triggers the fight or flight response, it causes the blood pressure to rise. It’s no secret among those who have some or lots of knowledge about polygraph testing that one of the things that the instrument measures and records is the blood pressure. It goes without saying that a high blood pressure can look like deception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When the blood pressure increases as a result of anxiety, naturally, the heart rate speeds up, too \u2014 a polygraph examiner looks for spikes in the heart rate when interpreting the chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The respiration rate follows suit, which is another important physiologic process monitored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfortunately, you don’t have to be guilty just to be anxious during a lie detector test. You can be completely innocent and totally honest during the session and still have an overwhelming fear that can make you look like you’re lying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A polygraph exam is a test, and there’s such a thing as test anxiety, which is under performance anxiety. And just like other individuals who are suffering from test anxiety taking other examination forms, someone who is undergoing a polygraph test may end up failing it<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n White coat hypertension is also something that can affect a polygraph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Simply put, white coat hypertension occurs when the blood pressure reading of a person is higher when at the hospital, clinic or a health care provider’s office than it is when in other settings, such as at home. A lie detector machine is certainly not a medical instrument \u2014 but the various sensors it has closely resemble some medical instruments!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The symptoms of anxiety can be debilitating and exhausting at times, affecting the work or school performance and everyday interactions and relationships of the person who has the mental disorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It can also be incapacitating enough as to affect an individual’s functioning during a polygraph test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the most widely prescribed medications for people who are suffering from anxiety are referred to as benzodiazepines. Also sometimes called tranquilizers, benzodiazepines are fast-acting medications. So much so that they can take full effect in as short as 30 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s due to the fact that benzodiazepines can provide relief from symptoms quickly why they are effective when taken during a panic attack or any other overwhelming episode of anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The following are some examples of benzodiazepines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"anxiety](\"https:\/\/truthorlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/anxiety-polygraph-1150971305-1024x768.jpeg\")
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