Anxiety No More!

What are you worrying about?

Is it about grades, relationships, or your future?

You become anxious about things that seem uncertain as of the moment. Or in some cases, you are nervous before a test, or presenting yourself to everyone in a competition perhaps.

Anyway, feeling that way is what Anxiety means. Your heart beats a little bit faster and it is your body’s way of preparing you to face such challenges in life.

However, by itself anxiety is not a problem because it only entails the biological response to danger which boosts your heartbeat and breathing, also the pumping of oxygenated blood to your muscles as this is for preparation either to fight or flee. In simpler terms, you might feel nervous, restless, or tense, having an increased heart rate, breathing rapidly, and sweating because these are warning signs for you to choose either to keep going or not.

If you might ask, what’s the difference between Anxiety and Stress?

According to the article issued by the Student Life University of Health Service (University of Michigan) Stress and Anxiety are two different concepts, Stress is the normal physical response that you have when you are faced with a challenge. (See more about it, “Don’t StressYourself!”) while Anxiety, on the contrary, is a different condition altogether and is more similar to constant fear. To illustrate, there are few common anxiety disorders as observed by the researchers/health experts, it includes:

-        Generalized anxiety disorder: This refers to a pattern of excessive worry about a variety of issues on most days for at least six months.

-        Social Anxiety Disorder: An emphasis of feeling significant anxiety in social situations (e.g public speaking)

-        Phobias: An irrational fear about a situation, living creature, place or object that poses a little or no actual danger at all.

-        Panic Disorder: Individuals with this kind of disorder will most likely have panic attacks, too with feelings of terror that strike suddenly and repeatedly with no warning. They may feel like they can’t breathe and have lost control.

Treatments are Lifestyle changes (e.g exercising regularly), Mind-body approaches (meditation). Also, seek a proper consultation for Psychotherapy, and Medicines to health practitioners.

Be calm at all times.

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