A Declassified Guide to Anxiety
People, with generalized anxiety disorder or, GAD are characterized by constant stress or excessive anxiety When something stressful happens. The brain releases cortisol and adrenaline. This causes the muscles to prepare to fight off the stressor or run away from it, This is otherwise known as a sympathetic nervous system response or the fight or flight reflex. People with GAD have fight or flight constantly running on the back burner. Each of the following points is a result of that reflex, Restlessness and fidgeting. This is more the flight than the fight response. The muscles and brain are ready to go, but there’s nothing to run from. This is why doctors say that regular exercise alleviates symptoms of anxiety because people are using all their pent-up go hormones in their bodies to go. Some people find it helpful to have a small object to occupy their hands like a scrap of paper to fold and tear This way. The hands are kept busy and prevented from harmful fidgeting habits like chewing or picking at their fingers. Lack of energy or rapid fatigue. The flip side of your body constantly being ready to run or fight is that it’s truly exhausting. For example, if you were to tense every muscle possible in your body right now and hold it for the rest of forever, you’d get exhausted. Pretty quick When all your energy is going toward something that could require an immediate response, then everyday tasks like getting up to turn off the lights seem much more: tiring, Irritable, bowels, acid, reflux, nausea, or other stomach ailments. The first thought is probably 39, but if you think about it, this makes a lot of sense. People can’t run long distances or perform heavy workouts with a full stomach or that leads to cramps. So this is your body attempting to rush the job of digestion so that it can allow for a fight and make your body lighter and more aerodynamic, which makes fleeing easier Trouble, falling asleep, or staying asleep. This one is pretty simple: If you’re in one place for too long, the danger could catch up to you, Your body, however, doesn’t realize that there isn’t any danger. So if you stay awake or only sleep short periods, it’s safer. Unfortunately, this system is a nasty cycle. You get anxious, so you can’t sleep, which leads to even more stress on your mind and body which makes it even harder to sleep, and so on. In Hyperventilation Muscle processing, more energy requires more oxygen to keep up the exertion, So breathing quickly would help to maximize oxygen intake. The challenge occurs when we overexert this response and the lungs don’t have time to pull the oxygen out of the air we breathe before. We exhale That’s when oxygen intake decreases and results in that dizzy sensation. Many people experience during a panic attack, Heart palpitations, Similar to the hyperventilation symptom heart palpitations happen because the body uses blood to carry oxygen to the muscles To carry the most oxygen fastest to hardworking muscles. The heart has to pump it faster, resulting in palpitations, Clenched jaw, or teeth grinding. Your body is ready for action. However, the challenge with anxiety disorders is not knowing what action. So your body responds with tensed muscles like a clenched jaw and teeth grinding Other common muscles. Tension responses could be clenched, fists, curled toes tension, headache or chronic migrained neck, or shoulder pain Shaking hands. This is another sign that adrenaline is sending your body signals to go in a situation when you don’t want to go anywhere. This can also be a by-product of tension due to overexertion of the muscles Sweating. Sweat is our body’s way of cooling off during intense energy. Exertion Muscles are burning energy being tensed and ready to go to work which is generating heat. So the body moderates its temperature by sweating, even when you feel cold, Hot, and cold sensations. The fight or flight response excites the body which causes increased energy flows and creates heat. If the heat generated is intense enough, the body’s parasympathetic nervous system is triggered, which creates a relaxation response. However, the body also sweats to cool itself. When heat is generated, Coupled with the sudden relaxation courtesy of the parasympathetic system, the body can experience chills because it cools too fast and is not used to the lower core temperature Anxiety is a state of constant fear due to stressors from your body. This fear was a logical response for a prehistoric human who needed to run or scare away predators when in danger, but it can be distracting in today,’ fast-paced world. The silver lining, though, is that people with anxiety are the ones most prepared to survive the zombie apocalypse. Do you or someone around you suffer from these symptoms of anxiety? If so, do you have any helpful tips on how to deal with them Be sure to let us know in the comment section below If you enjoyed this video, please be sure to follow our social media for more psychology content, and don’t forget to subscribe. Thank you for watching and have a wonderful day.Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by significant feelings of anxiety and fear. Anxiety is a worry about future events and fear is a reaction to current events. 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