How to Cope With Anxiety Disorder
What is anxiety disorder? Anxiety, anxiety disorder or generalized anxiety disorder is the one of the most common mental disorders.
It refers to the feelings of internal tension, anxiety, panic, or a feeling of "fear".
It differs from the actual fear in the manner that the real fear is usually something dangerous (e.
g.
you see a bear or a snake).
So in anxiety the topic of the fear is not genuine or at least the feeling of fear disproportionate to the threat in relation to it.
Anxiety and concern are normal emotions that occur during the life of all people.
They are right as they protect us from unsafe situations, help in the development and encourage better performance.
The limit for normal anxiety is often unclear.
In generalized anxiety disorder, anxiety is a continuous and long-term.
To someone with anxiety disorder, the worries and fears seem overwhelming and interfere with the daily living.
Anxiety is not a seizure such as panic attack or fear of social situations.
In addition to the state of anxiety frequently include a number of physical symptoms.
Anxiety disorder has substantial negative consequences to individual's social life and weakens the everyday performance.
Anxiety disorder is often associated with other mental disorders.
The usual ones are panic disorder, social anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Symptoms anxiety disorder The main symptom is of course, anxiety.
It is long-term, but the symptoms can change with years or when big life change situations happen.
Uninterrupted and excessive concern or fear of persons own or loved one's well-being and concern of potential future threats is typical.
In addition, a mixture of additional symptoms such as chest pain, palpitations, upset abdomen, muscle aches, shortness of breath, tremors, wooziness, perspiration, choking sensation, sound vibration, flushing, tickling and numbness, dizziness and frequent need to urinate.
The symptoms are highly individual and the majority of general anxiety disorder patients seeks treatment for additional symptoms, not just because they suffer from anxiety and fears.
Often people with anxiety are depressed at the same time (more than a third of them) and they also experience problems of sleeping, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, irritability and a lack of sexual desire.
A number of patients suffer in addition to panic attacks and fear of social situations.
Also alcohol dependence is usual.
Social anxiety In social anxiety disorder, someone has intense fears or is anxious about a particular social situation, in which he is faced with strangers or in observation of others.
A person gets anxiety, because they fear that their behavior or performance brings up an embarrassing situation, e.
g.
to show signs of anxiety or become one way or another embarrassed.
The sufferer of social anxiety is afraid of that the others see him as "weak", "crazy", or "stupid".
The person tries to avoid public speaking or giving a public presentation, mainly because others may notice persons voice trembling or confused for words.
Or the individual avoids eating, drinking or writing in the presence of strangers, since he fears that the other members present notices the tremor in his hands or any other tension.
The actual fear-provoking social situation almost always causes anxiety response, which might also start a panic attack.
In children, anxiety may come as crying, ill-tempered temper, freezing or clinging.
Children also may not realize that the fear reaction to the situation is excessive or unrealistic.
Reaction to fear often leads to avoidance of provoking situations or cause varying level of distress.
A person who suffers from social anxiety is often aiming for perfection and usually cannot manage self-criticism like "normal" people.
Modest fear of social situations is very common, at least one in five adults is nervous about public presentation.
It is estimated that at least 5% of the population have some degree of social anxiety or increased difficulty to perform daily tasks because of it, and it is more usual in women than in men.
Fears usually appear for the first time in adolescence or early adulthood.
Without care or assist, often lasts for years and are more or less permanent.
Fears often begin either gradually or suddenly when experienced awkward or shameful situation.
Inherited factors increase the risk for the occurrence of social fears.
How to overcome anxiety? Fears can often be relieved by a variety of exercises in which the sufferer is slowly trained to face the situation or object what causes the fears.
First the sufferer should learn to relax, then practice by mental image exercises, then face the situation or object in real life.
If one's fear is public speaking, one could exercise like this: (1) A person prepares the presentation and presents it to self all alone.
(2) Have the presentation to one friend/relative/spouse.
(3) Have a short presentation to 3-4 well-known colleagues.
(4) Have a long presentation to 3-4 well-known colleagues.
(5) Have a short presentation to 10-15 colleagues.
(6) Have a long presentation to 10-15 colleagues.
(7) Have a short presentation to 3-4 unfamiliar listeners (8) Have a long presentation to 3-4 unfamiliar listeners (9) Have a short presentation to 10-15 unfamiliar listeners (10) Have a long presentation to 10-15 unfamiliar listeners The goal is always to move forward in the scale of what is causing the anxiety.
If some point the fear comes intolerable, one should return to a previous point, recover, relax and try again.
It refers to the feelings of internal tension, anxiety, panic, or a feeling of "fear".
It differs from the actual fear in the manner that the real fear is usually something dangerous (e.
g.
you see a bear or a snake).
So in anxiety the topic of the fear is not genuine or at least the feeling of fear disproportionate to the threat in relation to it.
Anxiety and concern are normal emotions that occur during the life of all people.
They are right as they protect us from unsafe situations, help in the development and encourage better performance.
The limit for normal anxiety is often unclear.
In generalized anxiety disorder, anxiety is a continuous and long-term.
To someone with anxiety disorder, the worries and fears seem overwhelming and interfere with the daily living.
Anxiety is not a seizure such as panic attack or fear of social situations.
In addition to the state of anxiety frequently include a number of physical symptoms.
Anxiety disorder has substantial negative consequences to individual's social life and weakens the everyday performance.
Anxiety disorder is often associated with other mental disorders.
The usual ones are panic disorder, social anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Symptoms anxiety disorder The main symptom is of course, anxiety.
It is long-term, but the symptoms can change with years or when big life change situations happen.
Uninterrupted and excessive concern or fear of persons own or loved one's well-being and concern of potential future threats is typical.
In addition, a mixture of additional symptoms such as chest pain, palpitations, upset abdomen, muscle aches, shortness of breath, tremors, wooziness, perspiration, choking sensation, sound vibration, flushing, tickling and numbness, dizziness and frequent need to urinate.
The symptoms are highly individual and the majority of general anxiety disorder patients seeks treatment for additional symptoms, not just because they suffer from anxiety and fears.
Often people with anxiety are depressed at the same time (more than a third of them) and they also experience problems of sleeping, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, irritability and a lack of sexual desire.
A number of patients suffer in addition to panic attacks and fear of social situations.
Also alcohol dependence is usual.
Social anxiety In social anxiety disorder, someone has intense fears or is anxious about a particular social situation, in which he is faced with strangers or in observation of others.
A person gets anxiety, because they fear that their behavior or performance brings up an embarrassing situation, e.
g.
to show signs of anxiety or become one way or another embarrassed.
The sufferer of social anxiety is afraid of that the others see him as "weak", "crazy", or "stupid".
The person tries to avoid public speaking or giving a public presentation, mainly because others may notice persons voice trembling or confused for words.
Or the individual avoids eating, drinking or writing in the presence of strangers, since he fears that the other members present notices the tremor in his hands or any other tension.
The actual fear-provoking social situation almost always causes anxiety response, which might also start a panic attack.
In children, anxiety may come as crying, ill-tempered temper, freezing or clinging.
Children also may not realize that the fear reaction to the situation is excessive or unrealistic.
Reaction to fear often leads to avoidance of provoking situations or cause varying level of distress.
A person who suffers from social anxiety is often aiming for perfection and usually cannot manage self-criticism like "normal" people.
Modest fear of social situations is very common, at least one in five adults is nervous about public presentation.
It is estimated that at least 5% of the population have some degree of social anxiety or increased difficulty to perform daily tasks because of it, and it is more usual in women than in men.
Fears usually appear for the first time in adolescence or early adulthood.
Without care or assist, often lasts for years and are more or less permanent.
Fears often begin either gradually or suddenly when experienced awkward or shameful situation.
Inherited factors increase the risk for the occurrence of social fears.
How to overcome anxiety? Fears can often be relieved by a variety of exercises in which the sufferer is slowly trained to face the situation or object what causes the fears.
First the sufferer should learn to relax, then practice by mental image exercises, then face the situation or object in real life.
If one's fear is public speaking, one could exercise like this: (1) A person prepares the presentation and presents it to self all alone.
(2) Have the presentation to one friend/relative/spouse.
(3) Have a short presentation to 3-4 well-known colleagues.
(4) Have a long presentation to 3-4 well-known colleagues.
(5) Have a short presentation to 10-15 colleagues.
(6) Have a long presentation to 10-15 colleagues.
(7) Have a short presentation to 3-4 unfamiliar listeners (8) Have a long presentation to 3-4 unfamiliar listeners (9) Have a short presentation to 10-15 unfamiliar listeners (10) Have a long presentation to 10-15 unfamiliar listeners The goal is always to move forward in the scale of what is causing the anxiety.
If some point the fear comes intolerable, one should return to a previous point, recover, relax and try again.
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