Hello
everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Today I want to talk
about Anxiety, because it is a disorder, it's real and it's a very serious
disorder if you don't know how to take care of it.
So just a little background about anxiety for me. I
have never really had anxiety until I hit about my sophomore year in college.
I was dealing with a lot of things, including my boyfriend at the time
just making things really bad for me...and that was my first anxiety attack.
Now there are several different anxiety disorders…There’s panic disorder which is where you have feelings of
terror or are very scared that just strike at any time and they have no
warning. They are usually known as panic attacks and there are so many
symptoms that can arise from that like chest pain, feeling of choking and more.
There's also social
anxiety disorder which is
basically that you do not do well in public crowds or social situations.
There's specific disorder which is where you are afraid of
specific things like spiders, ants, airplanes, heights, things like that. And
there's generalized anxiety
disorder which is where you
just worry about things that you don't need to worry about or otherwise
unrealistic. Now for me I have generalized anxiety disorder because a lot of
times I do worry about things that are unrealistic or not needed to worry
about. When this happens I get dizzy and I cry a lot, I'm miserable, I
just think about the worst possible situation and solution, and then I end up
getting in a depression stage that if I don’t get out of fast, can really hurt
me and last awhile… and at that point I'm just not myself...and that's not
normal. There's not a lot of control that I have, once I get into this
state, and most of the time it can come from getting a bad grade in my college
class, or getting yelled at by something or whatever. So all in all, I'm
just not very fun to be around and it can really hurt in the end if you cannot
find a way to deal with it. Symptoms can vary depending on the type of
anxiety disorder that you have, but here are just some of the ones for general
symptoms: feelings of panic, fear, and uneasiness, problems sleeping, cold or
sweaty hands and/or feet, shortness of breath, heart
palpitations, inability to be still and calm, dry mouth, numbness or
tingling in the hands or feet, nausea, Muscle tension, and dizziness. All of these are to be taken seriously. 
Helpful to deal with any type of anxiety
disorder: Now these are my tips from my
experience, if you have other tips, feel free to comment below and share.
1) The way that I deal with it is I try to think positive. If I think
positive, then I can normally stop myself from going in anxiety.
2) Something else that helps is talking about it. I’m not one to
like have people who can fix it for me, I just want some to help talk out my
feelings, and then I decide what I’m going to do about it…because I feel that
when someone else can help you talk it through with you, you can clearly see
there’s no reason to even have to deal with it and you can be happy.
3) Another thing I love to do that really helps is listening to music. I don’t know why
but music just makes me feel so much better, and it gets me into a better
mood.
4) Also exercising can really help for pretty much anything because of the
fact that it’s making you think about your work out and not about what is
making you have those anxiety attacks.
5)And if you don’t know what else to do, see a therapist to help you sort of work through your emotions and maybe
then you can get on medication or something to help you get through it and
happy again, because everyone deserves to be happy.
Question of the day:
How do you deal with anxiety issues? Is there anything that
makes you anxious to the point where you sort of freak out and worry about
things that worked themselves out anyway? Share in the comments below
Note: I try not to share things that I haven't experienced yet or researched, so if you would like to me to write a blog post on a specific issue or topic, let me know in the comments below. I'm not a therapist, these are just my own situations and experiences and how I have dealt with it.
Resources:
**http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guide/mental-health-anxiety-disorders
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