Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses in the United States. Researchers have estimated that anxiety affects about 40 million adults in America. Anxiety is generally known as a disorder that causes nervousness, fear and apprehension. The most common cause for this disorder is stress. Anxiety affects one’s whole being. It affects how people feel, their behavior, and has serious physical symptoms. The feel of anxiety is a bit like fear but whereas people know what they are frightened of, they often do not know what they are anxious about. The causes of anxiety can alter a persons mentality and personality but most importantly, their health. Stress in one’s personal life may include problems within their relationships regarding the people they love. Tension can form between family members, spouses and even friendships. As a person who can relate to anxiety, much of my stress usually comes from feeling alone. All through high school I had my friends by my side along with my boyfriend. When my first year of college came, I experienced the change of not having my friends or boyfriend around all the time. My friends attend a different university and I found myself adapting to that change very difficulty. My anxiousness came from the same routine I would go through daily; go to school, go home, eat, homework, go to sleep and wake up and do it over again. My anxiety began to make me feel depressed. I did not know how to overcome it until I began involving myself in other activities to avoid feeling alone.
Stress can also develop in one’s workplace. With deadlines to meet and mounds of work piling over their desk, people tend to lose control and this eventually interferes with their career and health. This also is common in one’s schoolwork. Overwhelming homework or class projects can cause a person to excessively stress out about their work and soon enough develop anxiety symptoms. There have been countless times where I feel that I want to give up on my schoolwork because of the overwhelming amount of work I have to complete by a specific time. I usually experience anxiety when I feel completely lost in a class or when I cannot understand a homework problem.
Another known cause of anxiety can develop from stress due to
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of dysthymia) 1. specific phobias – fear of objects or situation that is out of proportion 2. Social anxiety disorder – fear of unfamiliar people or public speaking 3. Panic disorder – anxiety about recurrent panic attacks 4. Agoraphobia – scare of being trapped in where escaping or getting help would be difficult if anxiety symptoms occur 5. Generalized anxiety disorder Social Anxiety Disorder Causes more life disruption than other phobias • More intense and extensive than shyness – Persistent…
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Introductory Paragraph Anxiety is a cruel disorder to someone’s life. I’m going to go ahead and let you know what anxiety does to people and how it makes their life different. I’m going to go start with the symptoms of anxiety. I’m going to take it from there and talk about anxiety. At the end of the paper I will also tell you want helps control your anxiety and how to live with anxiety. The cause of anxiety is stress. If you are over stressed you will start having small anxiety attacks. At first you…
uncontrollable, and overloaded (referred to as perceived stress) can result in intrusive thoughts, which in turn are believed to compete for limited cognitive resources.” (Boals, Adriel, and Banks. 1336). The feeling of not having control of one’s life can cause panic and anxiety, and ultimately lead to serious health issues going as far as effecting one’s cognitive system, and the way one interacts socially, and views the world around them. Stress can overtake one’s life, and cause one to feel as if there…
English 101 7 July 2013 Social Anxiety The concept of fear dates back as far as 400 BC. During this time, Hippocrates, an ancient Greek physician described the overly shy person as “someone who loves darkness as life and thinks every man observes him”(Cunic). When fear is persistent and exaggerated, it results in tension and stress and consequently, anxiety. Ever have that friend, who never wants to come out to a social gathering? Maybe it's you. You avoid every situation dealing with…
essay I will outline the relationship between stress, anxiety, habits and phobias and describe how they would be treated with Hypnotherapy. Stress and anxiety are conditions that numerous people suffer with in today’s society. Modern society can comprise of a fast pace, long working hours and high pressured jobs. Over time a fast pace of life combined with sometimes self conflicted pressures can result in conditions such as stress, anxiety, habits and even phobias. At some point in a person’s live…
