Feeling anxious isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but when that feeling becomes toxic, chronic, and painful anxiety, it can seriously affect our daily lives.
What we want to highlight is that at first, anxiety is normal and healthy, because it helps us maintain some activation to protect ourselves from imminent dangers or to perform certain tasks.
- However.
- Despite its protective nature.
- It appears simply because we are afraid that anxiety.
- Anxiety.
- Nervousness.
- Palpitations.
- Intense thoughts.
- Sweat.
- Etc.
- Will continue.
Thus, we allow the creation of a kind of vicious circle through which we feel anxiety when we anticipate it, that is, the same fear that provokes one’s emotion makes possible the same sensations and reality that frighten us so much.
This state we call a vicious circle of anxiety?It is accompanied by the activity of two main hormones: adrenaline and cortisol. To understand how they work, we can think about how we react when we stumble upon a ladder. The heart beats automatically and we usually look for the handrail to protect our own physical integrity.
This set of sensations, which correspond to a healthy anxiety, gives us the energy and strength to protect us, are moments of intense and unpleasant excitement in which the body admits, out of necessity, the release of a good amount of adrenaline and cortisol.
You could also think of a roller coaster ride in which the sensations make it unpleasant and violent, as opposed to pleasure. It turns out that when we’re about to fall off the stairs or when we get on the roller coaster, we know that the sensations are fleeting and that when they arrive, they also disappear.
However, when dangers meet expectations or thoughts that seek to anticipate future dangers, we do not allow the friendly adrenaline monster to fall asleep, as we do not let him fall asleep, the monster feeds on our worries in the form of adrenaline, which keeps more and more in these feelings of anguish with nothing to justify it.
This means that adrenaline and cortisol run out of anything, or anyone to save from the dragon. They are there because we feed them reflections on the future that anticipate bad experiences.
All this sticks to us, even if we try to get out and free ourselves, so seizures occur, so insomnia persists, negative thoughts and the feeling of blockage do not go away.
Anxiety can manifest itself by relentless concern for family, health, academic or professional goals, economic situation, etc. It is likely that in the face of these concerns we will have the feeling that the stomach is in full centrifugation and that there is a feeling that something bad is going to happen even without knowing what and why.
Excessive and irrational fear of needles, blood, medical procedures, heights, elevators, dentist, water, animals such as spiders or reptiles, dogs, storms, interiors, etc. This type of mask is another hard image that anxiety chooses to show.
Sometimes anxiety paralyzes us in the face of an academic exam, a performance, a sporting competition or any other situation that requires a good performance in the execution of a task.
Is the disproportionate fear of public speaking another of the “preferred ways”?This anxiety must manifest itself. We feel the world spinning, we are shaking, we are nervous and we think that our own mind will be emptied when an obvious slip occurs.
Feeling nervous, tense, and unable to articulate a word in social gatherings is another mask that anxiety uses to greet us. Things like “I have nothing interesting to say” cross our minds, “Can’t I” talk to anyone?”You’ll think I’m a strange and failed person, isn’t it worth it because no one cares about me, etc.
Sweat, dizziness, obstruction, stiffness, strong palpitations, intense fear?If this is the case, then anxiety was dressed in a cruel fantasy: the panic attack.
Are you afraid of moving?Do you think, for example, that you are going to have a panic attack and that no one will be able to anxiety had to do with agoraphobia or, likewise, an intense fear of being in public spaces.
There are thoughts that keep haunting you and that you can’t get out of your head, at the same time, something in you forces you to perform constant superstitious rituals to control your fears.
For example, you may feel the need to wash your hands constantly, check several times if you have locked the door, or pray that 10 of our parents protect your family. Anxiety turned into obsessions and compulsions, one of his darkest costumes.
Have you experienced a traumatic event (sexual abuse, abuse, witness to murder, etc. ) months or years ago and the images of this horrible situation make you several times?You don’t sleep well and don’t feel safe. Consult a mental health specialist, as anxiety can manifest as a post-traumatic stress disorder.
Your physical appearance seems extremely abnormal, but only you can see how you feel. The rest of the people around you say it’s “not so much,” that your nose, body or hair is normal.
You may feel the need for plastic surgery and are constantly looking in the mirror with the intention of correcting your defect, the anxiety may manifest in the form of a body dysmorphic disorder, consider it, and seek specialist mental health to consult.
Pain, fatigue, dizziness, discomfort? You’re sure there’s a disease that puts your health at risk, but your doctor doesn’t see anything in the tests you take, even the explanations it offers may no longer calm your mind.
You may experience anxiety in the form of hypochondria and, to cure your health, you should seek a good psychology professional to evaluate your beliefs and your thinking about health.
Note to reader
Under no circumstances should the content of this article be considered a diagnosis, the idea is to approach the reader with the possibility that anxiety is present in his mind without him realizing it, it is essential that in case of suspicion, the person in contact with a health care professional performs an assessment and defines a treatment (if necessary).