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Relationship Between Anxiety And Stress

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Anger is a interesting demon I face because while it is not ever directed towards someone else, it is in fact always directed at myself in my moments of self destruction behavior. It often appears in moments of anxiety and stress, which I often seem to experience due to a number of reasons but I'd normally attribute it to my own destructive childhood where it never felt safe. In response to living in such a highly stressful environment, I became used to intense situations and living in a state of 'fight or flight' mode was extremely harmful for my own state of mine. Once I moved out and started living on my own, my body and mind was not used to the normalcy of life thus triggering states of panic was a normal reaction to very normal every day things. This is also called Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder, which is something something I do have to live with but have accepted it and am now open to talking about. …show more content…

It was not a healthy way to express feelings of frustration, and I've instead adapted the focus on myself rather then other when I feel anger which is just as unhealthy as to direct it at someone else. Most of it is very self deprecating, extremely hostile and negative which has not done myself any favors. When you take anger out on yourself, you tend to demean your own self worth and esteem in various ways. Such has telling myself I would never be good enough or how stupid I was for not being able to do a simple

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