Anxiety Negative Effects

Anxiety is a disorder that many people face daily. While some people might know how to deal with their anxiety, many people do not even know that they are being affected by this troublesome disorder. Anxiety is defined as a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. Anxiety has taken its toll on me throughout my lifetime, and I was completely unaware until I was able to put a word to the feelings I had. Impacting school life, work life, and personal life anxiety is no easy task to face. Anxiety has the ability to turn confidence into fear and has a great mental impact on the person affected. Anxiety, to me, is being in a constant state of fear or worry; no matter the situation.

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.

Alternatively Hadley (1995) puts forward the view that contrary to popular belief, anxiety actually arises out of thoughts of potential danger and not the actual danger that produces the symptoms of anxiety. In support of this view the document by Chrysalis states that “feelings of anxiety come from apprehension or fear, the source of which is not always recognisable”. Feeling anxious at certain times in our life is a normal instinctual response that serves as a protection to aid survival. It teaches us to avoid dangerous situations and in this way is a learning process however the subconscious can sometimes work overtime resulting in response to all situations that feel remotely similar to the one that has made us feel anxious in the first instance (Chrysalis 2010 1-5 pp7). This document describes how anxiety will affect our whole being, our emotions, our behaviour and our physical health. Anxiety becomes a problem when its level rises above normal and interfere with a person’s life, associated physical symptoms include, trembling, tense muscles, churning stomach, nausea, diarrhoea, headache, heart palpitations, pins and needles, sweating or flushing (Chrysalis 2010 1-5 pp7). These feelings coupled with the physical symptoms experienced make a person want

Anxiety has both mental and physical effects, it is our internal alarm system to put our mind on a physical alert and prepares for us a "fight or flight response". This alarm can go away when we know that everything is okay and there is no danger nearby or nothing is going to happen but sometimes our alarm will not shut off and then an anxiety problem persists. There are different types of anxiety disorders and I will discuss generalized anxiety disorder

Anxiety: The inward fear of a pending danger which is associated with phobia, and could be exhibited physiologically (Increased; Blood Pressure, Respiratory rate) and/or psychologically (agitation, insomnia, confusion). As humans, we suffer mild anxiety once awhile when we encounter a stressor and that does not require any attention but it becomes a problem when it turns chronic.

One of the negative effects induced by stress is anxiety. Whereas stress is caused by an existing stress-causing factor or stressor, anxiety is stress that continues after that stressor is gone. Anxiety is a feeling of apprehension, where often the source of this uneasiness is not always known or recognized, which can add to the distress felt by the client.

Anxiety can be a very serious (disease/disorder) it is simply defined as an abnormal fear or tension which can occur without any obvious trigger or session; a recurrence, unwelcome and intrusive thought. Anxiety can also be defined as a subjective state of fear or tension. There are two types of anxiety, anxiety can provide signals that alert the body to trigger it to improve mental and physical performance

Anxiety is a normal part of the human process that involves a reaction to adverse reaction

Anxiety is the negative aspect of experiencing stress. Anxiety is the worry and unpleasant feeling experienced because of the fear or possibility of failure.

This tends to happen when a person body starts to release hormone adrenaline, this happens when the body start to fight or fright response’ ’we have different types of anxiety such as Tired, feeling restless, feeling irritable, having trouble

It is rather an ontological characteristic of man, rooted in his very existence" (1950, pg. 50) “Anxiety is the apprehension cued off by a threat to some values that the individual holds essential to his or her existence as a person” (Fujikawa, 2014). Anxiety can be felt in two different ways, normal anxiety and neurotic anxiety. Normal anxiety is “a reaction which is proportionate to the threat, does not involve repression, can be confronted constructively on the conscious level” (Fujikawa, 2014). Neurotic Anxiety is similar, but is “a reaction that is disproportionate to the threat, involves repression and other forms of intrapsychic conflict, and is managed by various kinds of blocking off of activity and awareness” (Fujikawa,

Cashmoore (2002) has described anxiety as ‘an unpleasant emotion, which is characterised by vague but persistent feelings of apprehension and dread’ (Cashmoore, 2002). There are many different types of anxiety including state, trait, somatic and cognitive (Moran, 2004, pp. 72-75). State anxiety has been defined as ‘subjective, consciously perceived feelings of tension and apprehension’ (Spielberger, 1966, p. 17), whereas trait anxiety is an acquired behavioral tendency (Spielberger, 1966). Somatic anxiety relates to the physiological manifestations of anxiety, in sport symptoms include: increased heart rate, rapid shallow breathing and increased perspiration (Davis, Hutchings, & Morris, 1981, p. 541). ‘Cognitive anxiety however is characterised by negative thoughts and worries’ (Moran, 2004, p. 73).

State anxiety describes the experience of unpleasant feelings when confronted with specific situations, demands or a particular object or event. State anxiety arises when the person makes a mental assessment of some type of threat. When the object or situation that is perceived as threatening goes away, the person no longer experiences anxiety. Thus, state anxiety refers to a temporary condition in response to some perceived threat. Like state anxiety, trait anxiety arises in response to a perceived threat, but it differs in its intensity, duration and the range of situations in which it occurs. Trait anxiety refers to the differences between people in terms of their tendency to experience state anxiety in response to the anticipation of a threat. People with a high level of trait anxiety experience more intense degrees of state anxiety to specific situations or objects than most people do. Thus, trait anxiety describes a personality characteristic rather than a temporary feeling (Nelson, Purdon, Quigley, Carriere, Smilek,

Trait anxiety refer to relatively stable individual differences in anxiety proneness, that is, to difference between people in the tendency to perceives stressful situation as dangerous or threatening and to respond to such situations with elevations in the intensity of their state anxiety reactions. Trait anxiety also reflect individual difference in the frequency and intensity with which anxiety state have been manifested in the past, and in the probability that State anxiety will be experienced in the future

Anxiety: the fear of the unknown future. Many people struggle with anxiety each and every day. They feel as if there is no hope in the world to help them. Before doing daily tasks, a person with anxiety will over analyze the situation, thinking of the worst possible outcomes and put themselves in a very uneasy state of mind. As a consequence, these people struggle to live their lives to the fullest, as they are frightened of what could happen and do not let loose to try new things. I should know, as I have been stuck in the trap for a while now.