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Anxious about the coronavirus (Covid-19)? I’ll show you how to stop worrying about your health and stay healthy at the same time.
Timestamps:
0:35 – How health anxiety works
2:28 – How anxiety keeps us safe during a public health scare
2:47 – When does anxiety about coronavirus become a problem?
3:38 – How coronavirus anxiety relates to anxiety disorders
3:52 – Practice healthy habits
4:37 – Limit your media consumption
6:55 – Go to credible sources of information
7:46 – Stick to your routine
8:53 – Keep doing what helps you manage anxiety
9:02 – Seek professional help
9:20 – Comment of the week
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* CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
* World Health Organization (WHO): https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019
* How to Deal With Coronavirus If You Have OCD or Anxiety: https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/k7exqm/how-to-deal-with-coronavirus-if-you-have-ocd-or-anxiety?__twitter_impression=true
* How to wash your hands: https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/family-resources-education/health-wellness-and-safety-resources/helping-hands/hand-hygiene
* How to get better sleep at night: https://youtu.be/eg8VRjHZgXI
* Managing stress – 10 steps in 90 seconds: https://youtu.be/PzZZJ-2YUvs
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If you or someone you know needs help immediately, you should take one of the following actions:
– call 9-1-1 in the United States or your country’s emergency number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of…
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Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses, affecting 19 million children and adults in the U.S. reports the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA).ADAA also reports that the ailment consumes almost a third of the total $148 billion total mental health bill for the nation. That’s not surprising, given people with an anxiety disorder are three to five times more likely to go to the doctor, and six times more likely than non-sufferers to be hospitalized for psychiatric ailments. Although anxiety disorder describes a group of illnesses such as generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and phobias, there are some symptoms that characterize the illness as a whole. According to the American Psychiatric Association, when people suffering from anxiety disorders talk about their condition, they often include these descriptions: Unrealistic or excessive worry
Exaggerated startled reactions
Sleep disturbances
Jitteriness
Fatigue
Dry mouth
Lump in throat
Trembling
Sweating
Racing or pounding heart in the workplace,
these symptoms could translate into difficulty working with colleagues and clients, trouble concentrating, preoccupation over the fear instead of focusing on work, and turning down assignments because of fear of failure, flying, going into the elevator, or public speaking. For people who think they might have an anxiety disorder, Jeffrey P. Kahn, MD, a clinical psychiatrist and author of Mental Health and Productivity in the Workplace, recommends the following first steps of action: Talk about the problem with someone you feel comfortable with. Also, ask that person what he or she notices about you.
Take a break from your worry by playing sports, listening to music, praying, or meditating.
Join a self-help group.
If talking about the problem or relaxation techniques don’t work, seek professional consultation. Anxiety disorder is an umbrella term that covers several different forms of a type of common psychiatric disorder characterized by excessive rumination, worrying, uneasiness, apprehension, and fear about future uncertainties either based on real or imagined events, which may affect both physical and psychological health. There are numerous psychiatric and medical syndromes that may mimic the symptoms of an anxiety disorder such as hyperthyroidism which may be misdiagnosed as generalized anxiety disorder. Individuals diagnosed with an anxiety disorder may be classified in one of two categories; based on whether they experience continuous or episodic symptoms. Current psychiatric diagnostic criteria recognize a wide variety of anxiety disorders. Recent surveys have found that as many as 18% of Americans and 14% of Europeans may be affected by one or more of them. The term anxiety covers four aspects of experiences an individual may have: mental apprehension, physical tension, physical symptoms, and dissociative anxiety. Anxiety disorder is divided into generalized anxiety disorder, phobic disorder, and panic disorder; each has its own characteristics and symptoms and they require different treatment (Gelder et al. 2005). The emotions present in anxiety disorders range from simple nervousness to bouts of terror (Barker 2003). Standardized screening clinical questionnaires such as the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale or the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale can be used to detect anxiety symptoms, and suggest the need for a formal diagnostic assessment of anxiety disorder.
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Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses, affecting 19 million children and adults in the U.S., reports the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA).ADAA also reports that the ailment consumes almost a third of the total $148 billion total mental health bill for the nation. That’s not surprising, given people with anxiety disorder are three to five times more likely to go to the doctor, and six times more likely than non-sufferers to be hospitalized for psychiatric ailments.Although anxiety disorder describes a group of illnesses such as generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and phobias, there are some symptoms that characterize the illness as a whole.According to the American Psychiatric Association, when people suffering from anxiety disorders talk about their condition, they often include these descriptions:Unrealistic or excessive worry
Exaggerated startled reactions
Sleep disturbances
Jitteriness
Fatigue
Dry mouth
Lump in throat
Trembling
Sweating
Racing or pounding heartIn the workplace, these symptoms could translate into difficulty working with colleagues and clients, trouble concentrating, preoccupation over the fear instead of focusing on work, and turning down assignments because of fear of failure, flying, going in to the elevator, or public speaking.For people who think they might have anxiety disorder, Jeffrey P. Kahn, MD, a clinical psychiatrist and author of Mental Health and Productivity in the Workplace, recommends the following first steps of action:Talk about the problem with someone you feel comfortable with. Also ask that person what he or she notices about you.
Take a break from your worry by playing sports, listening to music, praying, or meditating.
Join a self-help group.
If talking about the problem or relaxation techniques don’t work, seek professional consultation. Anxiety disorder is an umbrella term that covers several different forms of a type of common psychiatric disorder characterized by excessive rumination, worrying, uneasiness, apprehension and fear about future uncertainties either based on real or imagined events, which may affect both physical and psychological health. There are numerous psychiatric and medical syndromes which may mimic the symptoms of an anxiety disorder such as hyperthyroidism which may be misdiagnosed as generalized anxiety disorder.Individuals diagnosed with an anxiety disorder may be classified in one of two categories; based on whether they experience continuous or episodic symptoms.Current psychiatric diagnostic criteria recognize a wide variety of anxiety disorders. Recent surveys have found that as many as 18% of Americans and 14% of Europeans may be affected by one or more of them. The term anxiety covers four aspects of experiences an individual may have: mental apprehension, physical tension, physical symptoms and dissociative anxiety.Anxiety disorder is divided into generalized anxiety disorder, phobic disorder, and panic disorder; each has its own characteristics and symptoms and they require different treatment (Gelder et al. 2005). The emotions present in anxiety disorders range from simple nervousness to bouts of terror (Barker 2003).Standardized screening clinical questionnaires such as the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale or the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale can be used to detect anxiety symptoms, and suggest the need for a formal diagnostic assessment of anxiety disorder.Anxiety is the Greatest! (jk it can go jump off a microwave)
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Hi everyone else! This video clip is probably be about maladaptive daydreaming and fantasizing, precisely what its and how to handle it. What is maladaptive daydreaming? Well, theoretically it is actually fantasizing, dissociation and now we additionally’ve all skilled this. Thinking about something in your ideas and dissociating from just what is being conducted all around us. We are able to be lost in idea for some moments, moments, or to a severity, hours or maybe more. This, averagely, is completely regular and absolutely nothing to worry about.
But, like most such thing, it may become difficult and stay mistreated and be an addiction. Consequently, when does it turned out to be a problem? Really, maladaptive daydreaming occurs when it becomes an addiction and you are clearly clearly spending longer in your mind, and neglecting your outer globe, eg friends and family, family, college, those forms of things. Often times it’s a coping method, dissociation, perhaps for anxiety, tension, despair. And, nothing is incorrect with that on it’s own. As a matter of fact its an excellent power to have and I in addition did a video committed to finding your internal leisure area if you are interested in checking that-away. It is an area you produce in your head that will allow you to launch any stress and anxiety you’ve got and just unwind. Which wonderful, it is a type of meditation, and meditation the most helpful things to do for your mind, body, and spirit.
It might be an incredibly spiritual practice and enable you to connect and comprehend yourself on a much deeper degree. In addition to change you into way more innovative and imaginative. Building these wonderful capabilities. It could end up like a lucid dream. Therefore, those will be the positives for this, or in other words, when you’ve got control about it that is staying away from over yourself.
It becomes maladaptive daydreaming or serious fantasizing when, as I mentioned previously, it makes you invest so much period of time in here and not-out right here, neglecting things which are vital that you you in your external globe. Coping process or a solution to release panic and anxiety is very good, but addiction and neglect of your exterior globe is bad. So, I believed I would personally share some personal information about at this point you of that time period that i’ve been lost in thought when it comes to is difficult and unpleasant for me personally. Times when it ended up being uncontrollable.
So, as soon as I’m maybe not absolutely doing anything or once I get sidetracked from doing a thing, i will be able to be soaked up whenever you consider the tips of my mind. Mainly it is negative thoughts, thinking and worrying all about blunders i’ve made, upcoming worries that will cause me anxiety and stress, awful ideas. I really could turned out to be for that reason immersed in what i will be thinking so it exhibits into my genuine body. Associated with, frequently i shall talk aloud the things I became thinking and therefore catches me off-guard.
Other times i’ll imagine some real sensation, like let us show someone hitting me, or any other discipline, and I also can actually feel it straight back at my body. In other instances i will imagine something mental and I reenact that within my brain and I also also can make myself go into a tremendously various sensation than I became in prior to thinking about it. And, which very interesting indeed. And, there’s nothing wrong with actually experiencing what you could be thinking given that it goes to show precisely how efficient the thoughts are.
You consider something and you’ll actually feel what you imagined, in all kinds of practices. So, you should utilize by using good motives to enhance the conventional of the everyday life. It truly is very useful actually. The thing I suggest is, considering any such thing good that produces you’re feeling great about yourself, tends to make you actually feel those thoughts and real emotions. But, there are several alternative methods of managing this type of behavior that I will discuss today. What exactly are some way of working with maladaptive daydreaming and severe fantasizing? Well, the very first most critical thing is learn how to get a grip on it. But, precisely how you may not repeat this? Actually, 1st thing is learn to recognize the behavior and want to change it. You simply can’t change it away if you’re going to be reluctant or cannot recognize it. You need to just take that effort first. Once you have done that, discover exactly what is causing that do that? Could it be being set off by something? If so, what-is-it and just why? If a very important factor is causing it, often there is a reason.
If you are not being triggered, why else have you been carrying it out? Might it be an escape from life, a coping method, possibly an addiction? Perchance you feel well informed in the inner globe helping to make you want to be here more in place of your outer globe. Or, possibly its uncontrollable accessible and yourself don’t understand you might be carrying out it. If it could be the scenario, it truly is regularly because of it either becoming triggered or a coping equipment or addiction.
If you have no idea how-to control the dissociation, a rehearse we give should be to intentionally dissociate yourself with a positive bring about order to master when the boundary is and just how to manage it. Generally speaking meditation and self-hypnosis often leads you to mastering that skill that we recommend. Dedicate a place and time day-to-day, including a timeframe, allowing yourself to become totally immersed into this fantasy to release those negative thoughts and obtain things you need from it.
From then on let yourself return. In addition, whenever you produced a world to unwind, which is great. But, regarding becomes an addiction it is time to re-evaluate the reason why you produced this globe. It had beenn’t to call residence in. Consequently, you need to get straight back on the right track as to why this globe is out there in 1st location. Make targets for yourself. Whether or not it’s a bad area or negative thoughts are building causing you to physically react to those, like We described with my example whenever i believe of upheaval and I can feel it, actually and emotionally, carefully shift your awareness of one thing good that may lead you to feel a lot better really and psychologically.
Think about your achievements, your targets, what you would like your perfect life to-be like. Shift from the bad globe into a confident globe. Again, usually do not make it an addiction to the level in which it is all of that’s necessary doing is maintain that world. Including, if you’ve got more self-confidence within internal world and that’s why you may invest much time here, transfer that to your external world. Imagine, visualize your confident self from your inner globe although the person who you may be everyday inside exterior world.
Perhaps imagine in your head two yous. The secure the one which is out there within your head, along with several other one that won’t have self-confidence this is actually who you really are in day-to-day life. From then on maybe imagine them merging into one. To make sure you are confident perhaps not just within internal globe, but also whenever you glance at the exterior world. Officially this could be hypnosis.
You might be hypnotizing yourself to be a tad bit more confident. That may work tremendously if you keep at it. And in addition much better, along with your imagination and dissociation abilities, it willn’t even be tough to help you try. Just visualize and imagine like you regularly do. Utilize those abilities since this is obviously what is going to assist you. It is a great capability to possess because you can put on it to your benefit, in a controlled environment to hypnotize your self, and provide oneself recommendations to better your behavior. Since dissociation takes place with hypnotherapy, this can really help you as you are often very hypnotizable. Precisely what should-be mentioned is the fact that people with skilled trauma tend to be a whole lot more hypnotizable than those havingn’t which could make all of them way more suggestible. So, make use of that capability to your advantage. It is a trade off in a way getting really hypnotizable. You could be at risk of these types of conditions where maybe it’s uncontrollable and you are clearly dissociating, but when you can figure out how to handle that ability you have got, you should employ it with exceptionally positive effects.
So, that is the strategy that you should notice it. There is completely nothing unfavorable, just a trade from something you need to learn just how to utilize ability precisely. Not just that, if you may be having a concern coming to the exterior globe from this dream, develop a portal to get back. I have a portal in my inner relaxing place that enables us to get back to myself from a fantasy. We talked about this within my finding your internal soothing place video that i might have one of the links in the description. But, imagine a portal that should you walk through it, you are likely to get right up from this fantasy, but will hold the good attributes you’d in your daydream. After adequate attempts of having up out of bed after going right on through this portal, it can become conditioned and you also can manifest it whenever you know that you are inside problem and return to on your own.
Once more, it truly is about learning that boundary and utilizing control of it. So fundamentally, fantasizing and daydreaming, possibly even on point of having a lucid dream, are not irregular in any way which is anything we-all experience with different amounts. It might be beneficial. It’s a wonderful coping equipment, in moderation.
But, for people who tend to be addicted or cannot get a grip on it, maladaptive daydreaming, this is the right time for you to re-evaluate the reason why this world is present within mind, and discover that boundary between inner vs external world. Enabling you to ultimately become confident individual in your daydream so that you don’t have to escape to your internal globe to be that confident person. Bring all of them straight down as it is both you and you are see your face if you decide to try. Consequently, kindly share your experiences and I also additionally hope this movie ended up being informative and helpful.
