Anxiety
"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."
-- James Baldwin
Anxiety is a natural and protective part of your emotional response as it warns you of real or perceived danger. Anxiety alerts your mind and body to fight against or escape from a perceived threat. However, if you frequently overreact to a perceived threat and your anxiety becomes overwhelming it needs to be addressed.
Anxiety can be debilitating and prevent you from functioning at your full capacity. Anxiety may even detach itself from the thing you are anxious about and generalize to the point where you feel anxious and don't even know why. People prone to anxiety may complain of:
- physical ailments (more than half of all complaints treated by physicians are anxiety-based that is, psychosomatic)
- excessive worry about real or exaggerated troubles
- fatigue
- an avoidance to doing things that were once enjoyable and beneficial
- a variety of other problems
When dealing with anxiety, it's important that:
- you not avoid feelings or situations that cause you to feel anxious
- confront your anxiety
- challenge yourself to take risks
- examine whether or not your anxiety is realistic or out of proportion
This is not easy to do and an experienced therapist can help you deal with your anxiety.
Questions to think about:
- What do I fear facing?
- What keeps me from facing my fears?
- Are my fears realistic or am I blowing things out of proportion?
- Have the things I am afraid of ever happened in the past?
- What is stopping me from getting the help that I know I need?
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