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.

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Symptoms And Treatments For Social Anxiety Disorder

Symptoms:

Many people feel nervous in certain social settings. Meeting new people, going on a date, giving a performance - nearly everyone has experienced the anxiety that these situations can provoke. Social Anxiety Disorder, or Social Phobia, however, describes an excessive or unreasonable fear of social situations that can be differentiated from the more typical fear that comes with discomforting situations.

Social Anxiety Disorder, or Social Phobia, is the 3rd most common chronic mental health disorder in the U.S. The anxiety associated with the disorder not only leaks into an individual’s social life but interferes with his or her everyday activities and professional life. The person recognizes the fear to be unreasonable; nonetheless, any situation that may become embarrassing or awkward becomes a source of immediate and extreme anxiety. While other mental health disorders cause social anxiety symptoms (e.g. sweating, palpitations, or panic attacks), Social Anxiety Disorder, or Social Phobia, refers only to individuals who specifically avoid or fear social situations.

The first mention of Social Anxiety Disorder dates back to 400 B.C. It is popularly accepted that Hippocrates made mention of the disorder while describing a man who "loves darkness as life and...thinks every man observes him." The socially phobic person’s tendency to overestimate the extent to which others "observe him" is characteristic of the disorder.

Individuals suffering from Social Anxiety Disorder typically experience the following symptoms:


•    Intense, persistent fear of being watched and humiliated by others: This fear takes the form of dread and avoidance and often leads to excessive self-consciousness.
•    Overwhelming anxiety upon entering a feared social environment: These social situations can be general or specific and range from eating and drinking with others to public speaking to simply standing around other people.
•    Understanding the fear to be unreasonable and excessive: Recognizing the fear as unreasonable is not enough, however, to help the individual overcome his or her anxiety.
•    Physical anxiety symptoms: Blushing, nausea, sweating, trembling, difficulty talking, and other symptoms associated with panic attacks are commonly seen in social anxiety patients.

Those diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder are continually hindered by the feeling that “all eyes are upon them.” While many people have memories of being discomforted by a social situation, an individual with social anxiety disorder is debilitated by the feeling. The anxiety interferes with an individual’s professional life, academic life as well as his or her everyday activities, often hindering an individual’s ability to form intimate relationships. Importantly, a person also develops a fear of the phobia itself, reinforcing the initial avoidance reaction.

Social Anxiety Disorder is harder to diagnose in children. Because children do not have the means to describe the quality of their anxiety as effectively as adults, the disorder may go unrecognized despite a child developing habits frequently encountered with Social Anxiety. Some common personality and behavioral traits seen in children with Social Anxiety Disorder are crying, tantrums, clinging to familiar people, extreme shyness, refusing to speak in front of their class, and fear or timidity in new settings and with new people. In order for a child to be diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder, the child must experience anxiety with their peers as well as with adults but also show the capacity to form social relationships with familiar people.

Treatment:
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