When anxiety takes over our reality, everything changes, everything collapses and is diluted, because anxiety is like that uncomfortable host who takes advantage of us, who refuses to leave when we ask for it and ruins everything, when this happens, our personality changes and we lose potential, balance and well-being.
It should be noted that, from a psychological point of view, humans are qualified specialists in the transformation of beauty?’Beast’. What does that mean? Anxiety itself is not our enemy, we are the ones who turn it into an uncomfortable monster that devours calm and devours health.
- This dimension.
- Well controlled and calibrated in our favor.
- Becomes an excellent ally.
- This allows us to respond to threats.
- Gives us momentum.
- Motivation.
- Ability to achieve.
- Etc.
However, there is another obvious problem in which anxiety ends up taking the form of our worst enemy.
Our society is an ideal setting for shaped anxiety profiles. Anxiety develops in uncertain conditions and today the world is full of potential threats, large and small, that we cannot control.
On the other hand, there is an eye-catching fact: our society, in a way, also rewards anxious behavior.
Always being busy and worried, having a busy schedule or doing five things at the same time is normal and even desirable. It is said that those who do not have this standard of living are lazy or carefree.
Let’s be clear: strengthening anxiety has serious side effects, living on autopilot guided by this dimension is not living, it just survives.
“Hiding or suppressing anxiety actually causes more anxiety. “Scott Stossel-
Robert Edelmann, emeritus professor of forensic and clinical psychology at the University of Roehampton, London, says something interesting in his book Anxiety: Theory, Research and Intervention in Clinical and Health Psychology (Anxiety: Theory, Research and Intervention in Clinical Psychology).
Anxiety itself is not a psychological anomaly, let alone a disease, it is just another process of human functioning, something normal, the only problem is that humans have become accustomed to abusing them.
We cannot spend entire months, years and decades accumulating tensions, fears and worries. Certain un copeting experiences, a lifestyle marked by continuous stress and even negative internal dialogue are factors that make this pressurized environment more intense in which air is not released, but accumulates dangerously.
However, far from causing an explosion, this incendiary matter enters us and every particle of our being transforming us, that is what happens when anxiety takes hold of us.
Anxiety makes us someone who goes against our own expectations. Gradually, the mental point of view becomes more negative, becoming our own boycott mechanism.
Any idea that crosses our minds will be challenged by this inner voice modulated by anxiety.
Goals, desires, and plans for the future will also be criticized for which anguish whispers to every moment that is not worthwhile, that we will fail over and over again.
It doesn’t matter if you’ve worked hard to accomplish a particular task or project, in the end, you’ll doubt yourself so much that you’ll end up rejecting any idea.
When anxiety takes control of our brains and lives, it ends up undermining valuable relational tissue. An ever-busy mind tends to neglect, almost unintentionally, those who matter most.
It does so because it has difficulty detecting the needs of others when the person feels anxiety, pressure and discomfort.
It is difficult to maintain a close, optimistic and determined character when what happens inside is an emotional storm, all of which undoubtedly causes family ties to be lost and there are several problems.
On the other hand, social relationships are also losing strength, it is very difficult to maintain friendships or make new friendships when anxiety is in us.
An anxious person acts out of inertia: he goes to work and goes home, has conversations in which he simply talks, responds, smiles and shuts up.
He continues to practice the activities he once loved, pretends to have fun and even seems to have some happiness, however, he finally returned home with a great sense of emptiness.
Anxiety disorders flood our brains and bodies with norepinephrine and cortisol. These hormones basically limit us to staying alert, to stay in survival mode.
Therefore, it is impossible to enjoy something or relax, because in the anxious brain there is no place for Serotonin and endorphins.
All of this makes us strangers to ourselves. We come to appreciate almost nothing, and nothing seems to make sense, we gradually navigate that existential void, in which anxiety sets the course and also chaos, we must not allow that.
These situations cannot be prolonged over time, because the psychological and physical stress is enormous.
Therefore, we should not hesitate to ask for help, anxiety disorders are not combated with antidotes, but with strategies and new mental approaches that we can all learn to implement.