{"id":152072,"date":"2024-02-03T15:29:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T15:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/152072"},"modified":"2024-02-04T20:46:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T01:46:50","slug":"whats-normal-anxiety-and-whats-an-anxiety-disorder-body-stuff-with-dr-jen-gunter-ted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/152072","title":{"rendered":"What’s normal anxiety — and what’s an anxiety disorder? | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter | TED"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xsEJ6GeAGb0?si=ARjsPX0b5VyHHBDt\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\r\n\r\nTranscriber We live in a culture that doesn’t take mental health issues seriously. There’s a lot of stigma.\r\n\r\nSome people tell you to just suck it up or get it together or to stop worrying or that it’s all in your head.\r\n\r\nBut I’m here to tell you that anxiety disorders, they’re as real as diabetes, Music Body Stuff with Dr Jen Gunter Hi.\r\n\r\nAgain It’s, Dr Jen, and I’ve noticed something with my patients.\r\n\r\nThey often describe to me some classic symptoms of an anxiety disorder.\r\n\r\nConstant worry, trouble, sleeping tense muscles, and struggle with concentrating, But they aren’t getting treatment.\r\n\r\nThere are a lot of issues with mental health care in this country.\r\n\r\nSome people, don’t have insurance that would cover it.\r\n\r\nSome have been dismissed or minimized in the past and don’t think seeking help will do any good.\r\n\r\nSome worry about the stigma and whether it could affect future jobs or relationships But severe anxiety. Isn’t a moral or personal failing It,’s a health problem, just like strep throat or diabetes.\r\n\r\nIt needs to be treated with the same kind of seriousness.\r\n\r\nBefore we can talk about anxiety disorders, let’s talk about anxiety itself.\r\n\r\nAnxiety is the very real and normal emotion we feel in a stressful situation.\r\n\r\nIt’s related to fear, But, while fear is a response to an immediate threat that quickly subsides anxiety is a response to more uncertain threats that tend to last much longer.\r\n\r\nIt’s all part of the threat detection system that all animals have to some degree to help protect us from predators.\r\n\r\nAnxiety starts in the brain’s amygdala a pair of almond-sized nerve, bundles that alert other areas of the brain to be ready for defensive action.\r\n\r\nNext, the hypothalamus relays the signal setting off what we call the stress response in our body, Our muscles tense, our breathing and heart rate increase and our blood pressure rises.\r\n\r\nAreas in the brain stem kick in and put you in a state of high alertness.\r\n\r\nThis is the fight-or-flight response. There are ways the fight or flight response is kept somewhat in check with an area of higher-level thinking called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.\r\n\r\nIt works like this.\r\n\r\nIf a person sees something they think is dangerous, like a tiger that sends a signal to the amygdala saying it’s, time to run The ventromedial prefrontal cortex can say to the amygdala: Hey, look The tiger’s in a cage.\r\n\r\nYou know what a cage is.\r\n\r\nThey can’t escape from a cage.\r\n\r\nIt’s, OK, to calm down It’s, a feedback loop that can help keep the response in check.\r\n\r\nThe hippocampus is also involved.\r\n\r\nIt provides context by saying things like Hey: we’ve seen tigers in cages before We’re in a zoo.\r\n\r\nYou are extra safe With anxiety.\r\n\r\nThese threat detection systems and mechanisms that reduce or inhibit them are functioning incorrectly and cause us to worry about the future and our safety in it. But for many people, it goes into overdrive.\r\n\r\nThey experience persistent pervasive anxiety that disrupts work, school, and relationships and leads them to avoid situations that may trigger symptoms.\r\n\r\nAnxiety disorders are not at all uncommon, Based on data from the World Mental Health Survey.\r\n\r\nResearchers estimate that about 16 percent of individuals currently have or have had an anxiety disorder.\r\n\r\nThese include social anxiety, disorder, panic, disorder, agoraphobia and phobias.\r\n\r\nStudies have shown that people with anxiety disorders, don’t just have a different way of reacting to stress.\r\n\r\nThere may be actual differences in how their brain is working.\r\n\r\nOne model describes a possible mix.\r\n\r\nUps in the connections between the amygdala and other parts of the brain, The pathways that signal anxiety become stronger And the more anxiety you have, the stronger the pathways become and it becomes a vicious cycle.\r\n\r\nThe good news is there’s, treatment for anxiety and that you, don’t have to suffer. Remember this isn’t about weakness.\r\n\r\nIt’s about changing brain patterns and research shows that our brains can reorganize and form new connections.\r\n\r\nThroughout our lives, A good first step is to do the basics, Eat a balanced diet, exercise regularly, and get plenty of sleep.\r\n\r\nAs your mind is part of your body.\r\n\r\nIt might also help to try meditation Instead of our heart rate, rising and our body tensing with mindfulness and breathing.\r\n\r\nWe can slow down the fight or flight response and improve how we feel in the moment through cognitive behavioral therapy.\r\n\r\nA form of talk therapy can also be fantastic In it.\r\n\r\nYou learn to identify upsetting thoughts and determine whether they’re realistic Over time.\r\n\r\nCognitive behavioral therapy can rebuild those neural pathways that tamp down the anxiety response.\r\n\r\nMedication can also give relief in both the short term and the long term. 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