Anxiety
Anxiety is a feeling of unease.
Everybody experiences it when faced with a stressful situation, for example before an exam or an interview, or during a worrying time such as illness.
It is normal to feel anxious when facing something difficult or dangerous, and mild anxiety can be a positive and useful experience.
However, for one in ten people in the UK, anxiety interferes with normal life.
Excessive anxiety is often associated with other psychiatric conditions, such as depression.
Anxiety is considered abnormal when:
it is very prolonged or severe
it happens in the absence of a stressful event
it is interfering with everyday activities such as going to work or socialising
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Anxiety attacks are caused when you become frightened. Your body instinctively does what it would do if you were being attacked by someone....releases a huge rush of adrenaline. It is because of this that you get the physical symptoms associated with anxiety...the racing heart, the tight throat, the pins and needles etc. When i learned this i then began to think of anxiety attacks in a positive way...i must actually be really healthy and well if my body responds the way it should do when i am feeling fear! Wheni had anxiety attacks i then tried to comfort myself with the thought that it is totally natural and will not harm me...just my body doing what it should....the real heart of the matter is why you are feeling afraid.
A lot of people who suffer from anxiety think the fear comes when you have an attack...in fact it starts a lot earlier than that but is not normally noticed as the fear is usually in our unconcious. When you know that the fear comes first, you then need to look for signs that you are getting nervous...perhaps tapping your foot, cant sit still, biting your nails etc...the sort of thing you may not be aware that you are doing as it is out of habit, but whilst you are doing the nervous things you do when feeling frightened...your body starts to respond to it.
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