I. A small amount of anxiety can be a good thing. A lot of anxiety is when it becomes a problem. “The dividing line is when the fear becomes so great that it causes a lot of distress and/or it makes the person not able to do certain things” says Dr. Bridget Walker. Having a constant or persistent feeling of fear and distress, is known as anxiety. In the past, people with mental disorders have been misunderstood and poorly treated. During, times in ancient Greece, many societies connected mental disorders to punishments from the gods or being possessed by demons. But, people still tried to find a more scientific explanation. No matter the cause, if not properly cared for, anxiety can lead to serious problems and disorders. II. There are numerous …show more content…
There are many different types of anxiety disorders. 1. Some of the different types of anxiety are panic disorder, agoraphobia, stress, PTSD, and generalized anxiety. a. PTSD is also known as post traumatic stress disorder. b. Agoraphobia is the fear of events or places that might cause panic. IV. Anxiety and fear are connected in many ways. A. Anxiety is connected with fear. 1. Although it’s in the brain, anxiety affects the whole body like real life-threatening situations. 2. Anxiety is the anticipation. a. Anticipation is the expecting or predicting what’s going to happen b. People can’t escape from the bodies hormones and brain-signaling compounds that have been released. B. Animals and people have become hyper-responsive throughout time. 1. This can be good unless someone becomes too hyper-responsive. a. That problem is known as anxiety. b. It makes us more alert. C. The worrying about events that may or may not happen is one of the main causes of anxiety. 1. Like fear, anxiety happens when people worry about different events that won’t kill you. a. These events haven’t even happened or may not happen. 2. Anxiety is a feeling of fear with often no clear reason. D. Lastly, fear is what kept our ancestors
Fear is an emotion caused by someone or something, we classify as dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. Most Fear is created in the developing stages of our childhood. Fear response is classified in two ways. The first way is immediate and instinctual, while the other is a process that takes time and delivers a clearer analysis of events. When one faces fear, both processes happen concurrently.
The Effect of Coping Cat Program on Decreasing Severity of Anxiety Symptoms among Youth Introduction and Background This study will design to examine the effectiveness of implementation of an anxiety reduction program on children and adolescence with anxiety disorders. It was hoped that a reduction in anxiety will be seen after the participants completed the coping cat program as a group. A reduction in anxiety would indicate a change in the child’s individualistic behavior, change in a child’s social behavior and improve of academic achievement. Data from this study were designed to evaluate the potential effectiveness of this type of evidence-based program as an intervention within a school system.
Fear is an emotional response created amongst ourselves due to a sense of some sort of danger or threat. Fear is not only something one feels within but is also the root of the change in behavior. When fearing something or someone our first instinct is to hide or flee away from what is causing us to feel that way. It is an unpleasant emotion that only prevents a person from achieving their beliefs or goals.
Anxiety: A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. That word was very prominent when I got accepted to the NCIBA honor band my 7th grade year. I was one of the most apprehensive times of my life, partly because I was extremely under prepared. Wednesday, I never liked Wednesdays during school.
Chronic anxiety is the body 's response to the worries of life. If the body cannot cope with the stress, an anxiety attack occurs. These anxiety attacks can cause heart palpitations, which can be caused by anxiety or for no reason. Stress can be good and bad for the body.
This can range from feeling irritable to shortness of breath. Where anxiety becomes a serious point of contention is when the feelings interfere with a person 's daily living. Sometimes, you will find that anxiety is the result that occurs from post-traumatic stress disorder. For example, if a person experienced a bad car accident.
Patients with generalized anxiety disorder are found to have unrealistic view of danger. Many of them fear being in pain, harmed and have repeated thoughts of death, suffering in pain, being in danger and getting damaged mentally and physically in anyway. Psychodynamic ? Caused from our psychological alerting mechanism that arises when patient 's unconscious motivations clash with the conscious mind of the patient. Environmental ?
When it comes to emotions, humanity is (for the most part) heavily afflicted. We are in fact creatures that respond to stimulus, and our responses vary based on a set of defined rules that we develop from the day of our conception. But, for the most part we are in the dark as to how these rules operate and why we respond emotionally to specific scenarios. These responses are heavily biased by our emotional construct and vary (as previously defined) from person to person. Due to this fact, and our innately inquisitive nature, psychology was born.
One of the most known human emotion is fear. It is a feeling everyone has experienced at one time in their lives. Many people react to fear in different ways. Fear can be defined as general anxiety. Fear has a way to set obstacles in life which become too big to overcome.
As anxiety is a future-oriented mood-state, many individuals may be nervous of not knowing what may or may not occur, causing tension. Two prominent anxiety disorders that focus on the feeling of worry are generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). GAD, is the lack of control over the worry process (Brown et al, 1994); when the concern of future events becomes severe and uncontrollable, it becomes maladaptive (Barlow, 2002). Contrariwise, PTSD is the condition in which the exposure of an extremely painful stressor was either experienced, or witnessed causing an intense fear, helplessness, and avoidance (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Both anxiety disorders focus on the thought of unease about the future, as GAD is based on the idea of something negative happening, whereas PTSD is based on the notion of something negative occurring again.
• Concentration Since worrying about everything takes up most of the time, people cannot concentrate on any one particular thing for an elongated period of time. Due to the lack of concentration, people also do not remember and forget things easily. • Feeling of danger Every anxiety disorder is based on some feeling of impending danger or doom. Even in completely safe situations, people think up scenarios where some catastrophe is possible!
Many people confuse fear for anxiety and vice versa. The difference is that fear is an emotional response to a danger that is real or a threat, while anxiety is thinking about future threats for long periods of time. In other
Anxiety. The crippling disease that can tear an individual apart. The fear of fear itself. A silent torturer that hides behind a smile; the deception equivalent of a magician. However, just like any magician, his subterfuge is revealed upon close inspection.
Everybody has felt anxious before a big presentation or job interview, it is the butterflys in your stomach or the thrill of a roller coaster ride. Several suffer from anxiety when they do not have an outlet for the excess adrenaline. Adrenaline build up in the body, the excess becomes toxic. There are a variety of forms of anxiety: genetic, phobia, and social anxiety. You could have one or a more than one.
People who have had one panic attack are at greater risk for having more panic attacks than those who have never had a panic attack. When the attacks occur time after time, a person is thought to have a disorder known as panic disorder. Panic attacks are related with agoraphobia that is avoiding crowded areas or a place where the