Anxiety
In this present world of complexity and stressful situations, anxiety
is becoming a household term already. More and more people are being
subjected to bouts of anxiety every now and then and with good reason.
As schedules become more hectic and the number of responsibilities to
juggle triple as we move into contemporary generations, the adjustments
are becoming difficult to manage.
Anxiety has different symptoms, varying from person to person. Some signs to watch out for include the general feeling of impending trouble or doom. Most people who have high levels of anxiety often expect the worst scenarios no matter how unlikely it is to happen in real life. Most unimagined bad things that could happen often seem so real, producing other symptoms such as heart palpitations, loss of concentration, tension in the muscles, dryness of the mouth, jitters or a feeling of having wild butterflies in the stomach, among many other things.
These symptoms can all happen simultaneously or only some of them, depending on a person's way of expressing anxiety or the intensity of the stimuli which caused it. Often, these symptoms do not just happen on its own accord. There is always some sort of stimulus that causes it. A person can have one or more stimuli that trigger the same feeling of anxiety and it is usually invalid or in exaggerated form when one is experiencing a full-blown high anxiety condition.
Mainly, anxiety occurs when a person's “fight or flight” action is distorted. We are all by nature, given the ability to fight or flight in given emergency situations. Fight is when one tries to kill the source of danger or anxiety. Flight is when one tries to run for it. Usually this fight or flight scenario is accompanied by a sense of panic, which portrays all the other symptoms mentioned above.
The problem of anxiety occurs when emergency situations are reclassified in our brain. For example, you become stressed at seeing your aunt. If you hear her name being mentioned, you might experience fight or flight actions even when it is not exactly a life and death situation. When regulated, this fight or flight action of the body can be good in producing adrenaline to keep us strong and able during tough situations or emergencies. But when it becomes a part of your daily routine and everything seems to be a fight and flight situation, that is where the problem of anxiety sets in.
There are two types of treatment available for people with high levels of anxiety. It depends mostly on the triggers of one's anxiety. For short term fears such as fear of danger or death, some sort of relaxing music and other forms of homemade self-therapy can be sufficient. But if your trigger for anxiety is long-term, such as being stressed with a relative who is living with you, some mentoring or counseling is definitely in order. If anything, if the trigger is caused by work or a non-living object, it is best to stay as far away from that stress source as possible, or lessen the amount of contact with it if it is not entirely possible to detach yourself from it completely.
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