Anxiety- Making it Live around You, Not the Other Way Around

Today anxiety disorders are recognized as one of the most common mental health disorders. Anxiety has been around since human’s worried about being eaten by saber tooth tigers. “It’s important to note that at its core level, anxiety is a part of evolution. Anxiety is the activation of the fight or flight system the system your body uses to keep you safe from harm (Calm Clinic)”. Oddly, anxiety is a normal part of life; you may feel anxious when having to make a significant decision or taking a test, for most people these normal feelings usually fade, however for those who suffer from an anxiety disorder, these feels never subsides. They can cause such distress that it interferes with an individual’s ability to lead a normal healthy life.

Anxiety happens to everyone, at some point in time. In fact, a little anxiety can actually be good for you. It can help you respond appropriately to danger, and it can motivate you to excel at work and home. (www.mayoclinic.com) However, when anxiety becomes so strong that it affects your daily

Anxiety is defined as the body’s natural response to danger, an automatic alarm that goes off when you feel threatened, under pressure, or are facing a stressful situation. A little bit of anxiety can actually help a person stay attentive and on track. If we did not feel a certain level of pressure at a job or school, then perhaps we wouldn’t care about it as much. We might slack or leave a few loose ends that may cause us to fall behind. A little bit is actually beneficial, but unfortunately there are people who have to deal with anxiety as part of a mental illness or disorder. There are different types of anxiety which include: general anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and social phobia.

Everyone experiences some form of anxiety within their life. Anxiety is highly individualized; meaning that each person who experiences

I will discuss what Anxiety is, how to diagnose it, and also how to treat it. It is very common and I’m pretty sure most of you know basically what it is. But just in case I will go over the main important things to know about Anxiety. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, anxiety disorders involve more than temporary worry or fear. For a person with an anxiety disorder, the anxiety does not go away and can get worse over time. The feelings can interfere with daily activities such as job performance, school work, and relationships. There are several different types of anxiety disorders. Examples include generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and social anxiety disorder. According to the American psychological association, Anxiety is an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts, and invisible changes like increased blood pressure. You can have OCD, phobias, panic attacks, and PTSD. OCD is basically anxiety that takes the form of obsessions and compulsions. I know many of you guys are scared of spiders or bees and that is

Anxiety is a disorder many people are quick to self-diagnose. While anxiety is a very serious disorder, I believe it is important to educate and seek professional advice before assuming you are someone who suffers from this disorder. I chose the article by Alexander M. Penney, Dwight Mazmanian, & Caitlin Rudanycz because I was that person I previously mentioned. I suffered for years from what I assumed was severe anxiety and it wasn’t until I sought professional help that I was finally able to understand and better control the situation at hand.

Anxiety disorders are the most predominant of all psychiatric diagnoses and affect about 18% of the population every year (Flanagan, Zaretsky, Moroz, 2010). Anxiety disorders can range from mild to severe depending on the disorder and have many different symptoms, treatments and can affect almost anyone.

some of us fall into the trap of anxiety, some worse than others. it can lead to many complications whether that be self-harm, depression or suicide

What is anxiety? Is it the anxious feeling you get before taking a midterm, the “butterflies in your stomach” feeling before public speaking? Or rather is it the feeling of powerlessness, of being unable to control the environment around you? While for some, anxiety is only a temporary feeling of nervousness, a fear of making a mistake; for others, anxiety is a feeling of constant paranoia and fear that takes over their daily routines. In my case, anxiety is only a symptom of something greater – my obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). From living in constant paranoia of contracting an illness and spreading it to loved ones to having obsessive thoughts, my anxiety and OCD prevents me from developing healthy relationships with others and having

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to deal with your anxiety disorder and form a happy life.

With as many problems as there are today, including the stresses from family, jobs, school or socially, psychological disorders are very common. The stress of life, at one time or another, causes people to sometimes have a horrible feeling of anxiety. “Anxiety disorder is an alarm signal, heralding an imminent danger, allowing people to use all necessary measures to cope with the threat” (Yduoctinhhoa). People who have pathological anxiety usually experience excessive or disproportionate symptoms to the persistent threat. This affects their activities, and is possibly accompanied by thoughts or actions which seem excessive, repeated or prolonged, which influences their adaptation to life. The pressures of work, health, the family, the living

Like I said before,”we all have anxiety and we can’t really get rid of it”. Some people do have it worse than others, but we can get through this. People’s anxiety is dependant on their genes and how bad of an area you live in but we can get through

Many of us anxiety-sufferers have been so anxious for so long that we really have no idea of any other kind of life. Some of us will think that feeling constantly anxious, sweating, afraid, and nervous about everything is the way that we were meant to live and that things can be no other way. Some of us even try to convince ourselves that we are the only ones who feel this way, while others try to convince themselves that everyone feels this level of anxiety.

Figuring out that I had anxiety took a while, I always felt like I was anxious a lot more than everyone else and beyond stressed at a young age. It just did not click in my head that there might be something wrong. I was living my life in a low state, depressed and having multiple panic attacks through the day at any giving time and there was no obvious thing that trigger them. I was miserable to the point I did not want to get out of bed, I was too afraid. This caused me to become super depressed, to the point of cutting and thinking of my options to end this cruel disorder that was taking over my life.