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Anxiety is a typical emotional response to risk and is defined as an unpleasant feeling of fear or impending calamity.
What causes anxiety in one individual may not cause anxiety in another. Our bodies’ reaction to risk is a very old system that evolved from man’s need to recognise physical danger (such as the possibility of being devoured by a woolly mammoth) and react promptly (i.e. run away). That’s why, when you start to feel worried, you notice your heart racing, your stomach churning, and possibly tingling in your arms and legs – your body is simply warning you to flee the danger.
However, modern danger is not usually in the form of a hungry woolly mammoth. Today, ‘danger’ refers to tension, thoughts of being out of control, or challenging emotions like depression or anger.
When it comes to causing anxiety, social media can be a major issue. When we continuously compare ourselves to others online, it can have a significant impact on how we feel about ourselves. Photoshopped and filtered images of ‘perfect’ looks and physique, or people appearing to live ‘perfect’ lifestyles, can make us feel uneasy and inadequate. Even if we are aware on some level that it is not true, we are nonetheless nervous and concerned that we are not good enough, pretty enough, fit enough, buff enough, ripped enough, a decent enough mother, father, lover, or friend.
Anxiety Symptoms
Anxiety can impact both our physical and emotional health. When we are worried, we do not think properly, we exaggerate the negative, we fantasise about the future, and this might impair our capacity to work, socialise, and communicate. Anxiety can cause the following physical symptoms:
- Palpitations;
- Chest discomfort;
- Faintness;
- Having a flushed or crimson face;
- Sweating;
- Hyperventilation or lack of breath
- A dry mouth
- Nausea and perhaps vomiting
- Dizziness;
- Headaches,;
- Stomach ache;
- Tremors;
- Feeling scared
Anxiety-related psychological symptoms include:
- A sense that everything around you is not genuine;
- Distortion of sounds;
- Thoughts speeding up or slowing down;
- Distractibility;
- A lack of concentration;
- Memory loss
- Appetite loss;
- Libido deficiency;
- Insomnia.
How We Can Help
We recognise that dealing with anxiety may be a lonely and alienating experience at Mind Healing Counselling. Counselling for anxiety and panic attacks can assist you in developing your own coping mechanisms to deal with your anxiety symptoms and techniques to combat negative thinking. Examining probable underlying issues that produce or maintain the symptoms you experience is part of the effort in coping with anxiety.
Anxiety, Panic, and Stress Reduction Using CBT
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy or CBT, is a safe and effective treatment for anxiety, stress, and panic attacks. CBT incorporates work on both physical symptoms (panic, heart rate, sweaty palms, and so on) and mental symptoms (thoughts, feelings, and negative coping techniques).
CBT is an extremely effective strategy that will greatly reduce, if not entirely eradicate, your anxiety, panic, or stress symptoms. The objective is to learn how to manage stress and anxiety successfully and being able to actively relax both your body and your thoughts in the face of stresses is a critical ability you will acquire.
