7 Top Anxiety Management Techniques : How You Can Stop Anxiety And Release Stress Today

Heather Rose

Description

Coping with anxiety via anxiety management can be effectively achieved if you understand what severe anxiety means and how it progresses. Anxiety disorders are labeled in various categories such as General Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), social phobias and panic attacks. Regardless of how anxiety is defined, short-term relief of anxiety symptoms, with the aid of proper anxiety management strategies, is entirely possible. More often than not, people tend to confuse between stress and anxiety. Stress is basically defined as a mental or emotional burden that you experience. In contrast to this, anxiety is described as uneasiness or nervousness in the presence of danger or over an anticipated situation. If you feel anxiety, you will become stressed out. Similarly, if you feel stressed out, you will feel anxiety. These two terms are often used interchangeably. While performing your daily tasks you may experience stress and anxiety. For instance, whenever you are in an argument with your friend, or sibling for that matter, you will experience stress and anxiety over what happened. Sometimes you may consider taking a walk, doing yoga, or watch television to take your mind off the situation. This may be your way of stress and anxiety management. Apart from these, there are few more tips and techniques that can be used to tackle both stress and anxiety. In order to begin with stress anxiety management, you should neutralize both your stress and anxiety, but how to achieve this? There are three major aspects that contribute to anxiety in our lives: Physical, Mental and Social.

Sujets

• EDUCATION
• Counseling
• List of counseling topics
• Self-management
• Mental health
• Assertiveness
• Psychopathology
• Stress management
• Holism
• Physical exercise
• Popular psychology
• General officer
• Self-help
• Dissociative identity disorder
• Social sciences
• Psychotherapy
• Psychology
• Mind
• Disease
• General
• Sleep
• Body
• Référence
• S
• Spirit
• Holisme
• Médecine

Informations

• Publié par: Speedy Publishing LLC
• Date de parution: 27 août 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781628845174
• Langue: English

Extrait

7Top Anxiety Management Techniques:
Simple& Quick Methods To Stop Anxiety And Release Stress Today
By:Heather Rose
Table of Contents
Publishers Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1- About Anxiety
Chapter 2- Signs of Anxiety
Chapter 3- Symptoms of Anxiety
Chapter 4- Types of Anxiety Disorders
Chapter 5- How Anxiety Can Affect You
Chapter 6- What Causes Anxiety
Chapter 7- How Anxiety Can Be Treated
Chapter 8- 7 Top Anxiety Management Techniques
Resources
PublishersNotes
Disclaimer
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Introduction
In the USA alone a total of 19million adults between the ages of 18 and 54 have been diagnosed with some formof anxiety disorder. As a result of this sufferers on finding anxietytreatments that prove effective are spending every year $46.6 billion.
Although the taking of medicationprescribed by a doctor can help and certainly attending appointments withtrained mental health professionals can help as well. There are many techniquesthat one can use when suffering from any form of anxiety disorder that can helpthe sufferer to regain control over their lives once again.
However before you can even beginusing anxiety management techniques including those contained in this book isthat you first need to understand the cause of the condition. We all sufferfrom anxiety in our lives at some stage and most of us can cope with the issueand lead normal lives. There are however situations where when a number ofdifferent stressful situations arise it makes dealing with them a lot moredifficult and as a result anxiety then takes over.
In order to help you betterunderstand your own anxiety we take a look more closely at what the differentanxiety disorders are as well as what may cause them to develop.
It is important that before youactually choose to try out any anxiety management techniques you must make surethat you take a close look at the way you are actually coping with any kind ofanxiety you may be suffering from at this time. If you don’t then how can youactually get a better understanding as to what is happening and whichtechniques would be best to use to help you deal with your condition moreeffectively.
Of course you may be wondering whatare the benefits to trying out such techniques to help you manage your anxietybetter. Well the first benefit to be had from using such techniques is that youagain gain control over your life once more. If you allow the anxiety to takeover then of course the condition will only become much worse.
The second benefit is that you willstart to regain confidence in yourself. Once you learn ways to prevent youranxiety from taking over you become happier and you feel more confident aboutbeing able to handle any situation more effectively in the future.
The third and final benefit is thatyou can start to enjoy wonderful relationships with others around you. When anyform of anxiety disorder is allowed to take control many people who suffer fromthem choose to alienate themselves from others.
Chapter 1- About Anxiety
From time to time we all experiencefeelings of anxiety. Generally it can be described as a sense of uneasiness,worry, fear, dread or nervousness in a person relating to something that isabout to happen or to something that may happen.
The feelings that we get thatassociated with anxiety can be quite mild but they can also be quite intense.Of course this is dependent on the situation the person finds themself in andthe kind of person that they are.
Most of us will have to deal withfeelings of anxiety when faced with things that are unfamiliar or new to us.Plus these feelings will arise when we are faced with a situation that provesto be challenging. The kinds of situations that could cause such feelings tooccur would be when taking a test or going for an interview, even going out ona date for the first time can lead to you feeling more anxious than is normal.Yet even though these situations don’t actually place any physical threat onour lives that can still cause us to feel “threatened” because we are worriedthat we are going to make a mistake.
As anxiety makes us much more alertand focused so that we can head off any potential problems that may come ourway, suffering from a little anxiety can actually help us to do better incertain situations. However if the feelings are too strong then there is a riskthat they can interfere with what we are trying to do. In fact if one isfeeling too anxious there is everything possibility that one will feelcompletely overwhelmed even when faced with a simple task or situation and arenot able to do what is required of them.
Today anxiety disorders have becomevery much part of some people’s lives so that even the most normal reactionsrelating to anxiety can result in them creating doubts in that person’s mindrelating to their mental health.
What one needs to remember is that feelinganxious is normal and helps you to cope more effectively with the stress thatmany of us are faced with today. However it only becomes a disorder when theanxious feelings you are having are completely out of proportion to the levelsof stress you are faced with.
In fact what you are feeling whenyou are anxious is a completely normal and natural human reaction that not onlyinvolves your mind but also your body. It is a very important function thathelps us to survive. It is in fact our body’s alarm system that becomes activewhen we perceive that we may be in danger or threatened.
When we perceive that we may be indanger then certain physical sensations occur. Generally when we feel anxiousour hearts beat faster and our breathing becomes much more rapid. Furthermoreour muscles will start to become tense and we feel nauseous and we start tosweat a lot more especially from the palms of our hands. Plus of course we tendto find that our hands and legs begin to tremble. All of these sensations we arefeeling are part of our bodies’ mechanism to protect us from anything weconsider to be dangerous. The sensations we are feeling when anxious are causedby our bodies producing excess amounts of adrenaline and other chemicals thatcan then help us to move away from the danger we sense as quickly as possible.
These sensations occur very quicklyas soon as we sense we may be in danger. However what you need to be aware ofis that the thinking part of our brains (the Cortex) needs time to process andevaluate the situation to determine if the threat is for real or not and thendetermines how best to handle it. Normally a signal will be sent from our brainthat confirms that there is no real danger and we can relax once more.
Chapter2- Signs Of Anxiety
It is perfectly normal to feelanxious during situations that you are finding stressful. In fact it isperfectly good for you as the tension you are feeling helps to increase levelsof energy and concentration within you and this in turn improves the way that youperform. In fact the feelings that we get when we feel anxious help to spur uson to take the necessary actions that will help us to face the situation headon.
However you only develop an anxietydisorder when you find the symptoms associated with it begin to interfere withyour life, relationships and the way you perform on a daily basis.
Below are some of the signs ofanxiety that one needs to be aware of:
Sign 1 – Do you find yourself trying toavoid certain situations everyday because they make you extremely anxious?
Sign 2 – Are you finding yourself plaguedby certain fears that appear to be totally irrational?
Sign 3 – Is the anxiety you are feeling soextreme and intense that it is starting to interfere not only with yourrelationship with others but also with how you perform?
Sign 4 – Are you constantly feelingjittery, tense and worrying excessively about the smallest of things?
Sign 5 – Are you experiencing bouts ofpanic in very normal situations with or without the physical symptomsassociated with anxiety such as palpitations and sweating excessively?
Sign 6 – Do you find yourself carrying outcertain rituals or avoiding doing certain things because they cause too muchanxiety and fear in you?
If you have begun to notice that youare suffering from any of the signs that are mentioned above then there isevery possibility that you are suffering from some form of anxiety disorder.However the only real way of confirming if this is the case is to speak withyour doctor. They will then carry out certain tests to then diagnose whetheryou are suffering from some form of anxiety disorder or if the pr