Thursday 24 April 2014

Understanding And Treating Anxiety

Everyone occasionally experiences some anxiety. It is a normal response to a stressful event or perceived threat. Anxiety can range from feeling uneasy and worried to severe panic. The aim of this Tip Sheet is to inform people about what anxiety is and to provide some tips to help manage anxiety when it becomes a problem.

What is anxiety?

Anxiety is an uncomfortable feeling of fear or impending disaster and reflects the thoughts and bodily reactions a person has when they are presented with an event or situation that they cannot manage or undertake successfully. When a person is experiencing anxiety their thoughts are actively assessing the situation, sometimes even automatically and outside of conscious attention, and developing predictions of how well they will cope based on past experiences.

Although some anxiety is a normal response to a stressful situation, when the anxiety level is too high a person may not come up with an effective way of managing the stressful or threatening situation. They might "freeze", avoid the situation, or even fear they may do something that is out of character.

Anxiety generally causes people to experience the following responses:

An intense physical response due to arousal of the nervous system leading to physical symptoms such as a racing heartbeat.

A cognitive response which refers to thoughts about the situation and the person's ability to cope with it. For someone experiencing high anxiety this often means interpreting situations negatively and having unhelpful thoughts such as "This is really bad" or "I can't cope with this ".

A behavioral response which may include avoidance or uncharacteristic behavior including aggression, restlessness or irrational behavior such as repeated checking.
An emotional response reflecting the high level of distress the person is experiencing.

The best way to treat heightened daily anxiety has been discovered by the researchers at A2X Anxiety. A2X is an all natural compound that promotes the body's natural defense to anxiety. In other words, it works with your body to defeat these symptoms. To learn more about this breakthrough in understanding and treating anxiety, go to their website.

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